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Scientists exploring new compounds to target muscular dystrophy
Scientists have identified a promising set of new compounds in the fight against muscular dystrophy.   view more (2008-11-19)

Research Fortnight 24 July issue: stories on AHRB`s future, the spending review, Wellcome, sustainable agriculture, and foot and mouth.
Research council status recommended for AHRB The Arts and Humanities Research Board should become a research council, according to a review carried out for the government. The new council should be created by a royal charter and funded, like the existing research councils, through the Office of... view more (2002-07-24)

Good luck indeed: 53 million-year-old rabbit's foot bones found
One day last spring, fossil hunter and anatomy professor Kenneth Rose, Ph.D. was displaying the bones of a jackrabbit's foot as part of a seminar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine when something about the shape of the bones looked oddly familiar.   view more (2008-03-20)

'Jekyll and Hyde' bacteria offer pest control hope
New research at York has revealed so-called 'Jekyll and Hyde' bacteria, suggesting a novel way to control insect pests without using insecticides.   view more (2007-12-20)

Brain region linked to fly slumber
Researchers at Northwestern University have pinpointed a brain area in flies that is crucial to sleep, raising interesting speculation over the purpose of sleep and its possible link with learning and memory.   view more (2006-06-08)

Automated technique paves way for nanotechnology's industrial revolution
In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features on the order of single molecules.   view more (2007-08-02)

Decision-making — Demonstration of a link between cognition and execution
For the first time, a team of researchers in the Movement, Adaptation, Cognition Laboratory (CNRS/University Victor Ségalen, Bordeaux) has revealed the existence of an interaction at the cellular level between cognitive information and motor information.   view more (2007-02-09)

Spanish scientists reveal dynamic map of proteins
Scientists from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the Life Sciences Programme at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB) have published a provisional "atlas" of the dynamic behaviour of proteins in the... view more (2007-01-10)

Novel connection found between biological clock and cancer
Dartmouth Medical School geneticists have discovered that DNA damage resets the cellular circadian clock, suggesting links among circadian timing, the cycle of cell division, and the propensity for cancer.   view more (2006-06-30)

NASA Supercomputer Shows How Dust Rings Point to Exo-Earths
Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new avenue in the search for habitable planets.   view more (2008-10-13)

New rewards for inspiration and innovation in raising the public awareness of physics
New rewards for inspiration and innovation in raising the public awareness of physics   view more (1999-04-07)

World's most powerful MRI ready to scan human brain
The world's most powerful medical magnetic resonance imaging machine, the 9.4 Tesla at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has successfully completed safety trials and may soon offer physicians a real-time view of biological processes in the human brain.   view more (2007-12-05)

Physicists create BlackMax to search for dimensions in space at the Large Hadron Collider
A team of theoretical and experimental physicists, with participants from Case Western Reserve University, have designed a new black hole simulator called BlackMax to search for evidence that extra dimensions might exist in the universe.   view more (2008-11-07)

Researchers Assess Risks Associated with Living in Low-Lying Coastal Areas
For many, sea-level rise is a remote and distant threat faced by people like the residents of the Tuvalu Islands in the South Pacific, where the highest point of land is only 5 meters (15 feet) above sea level and tidal floods occasionally cover their crops in seawater.   view more (2006-05-18)

Over 40,000 Lives Lost Worldwide Every Year
The 'humble' aspirin, which has been known for at least a decade to prevent heart attacks and strokes in thousands of people at high risk of cardiovascular disease, is still massively underused, according to new research published today (Fri Jan 11) in the British Medical Journal. Previous studies... view more (2002-01-09)

Study aims to cut deaths from severe infection in hospital wards
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are aiming to reduce the risks posed by a life-threatening condition which affects four in ten of Scottish intensive care patients.   view more (2006-06-08)

EU research fights killer viruses' stubborn resistance to drugs
Viruses' growing resistance to drugs means diseases such as hepatitis B and C are increasingly difficult to treat. New pandemics may arise with unforeseeable consequences. The EU is therefore contributing EUR9 million to the "Vigilance against Viral Resistance" (VIRGIL) project, to be... view more (2004-06-29)

Molecule links Down syndrome to Alzheimer's
Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London have identified a molecule that could be targeted to treat the cognitive impairment in people with Down syndrome.   view more (2005-12-06)

Low Marks For A Desire To Have Fame And Money
Students who are more interested in fame and wealth, compared to contributing to society or having fulfilling relationships, score lower marks at university. These are the results of a study conducted by Dr John Wilding and Professor Bernice Andrews of Royal Holloway University of London, presented... view more (2004-04-16)

Molecular imaging technology used in gastric cancer
Modern cancer care is critically dependent on imaging technologies, which are used to detect early tumors and guide their therapy or surgery. Molecular imaging technologies provide information about the functional or metabolic characteristics of malignancies, tumor stage and therapeutical response,... view more (2008-09-25)

What do hospital consultants value most about their jobs?
Consultants feel most strongly about on-call conditions, freedom to do non-NHS work, and developing good relations with staff, according to a survey of various aspects of their work in this week's BMJ. As part of a survey of all career grade doctors in NHS Scotland about flexible working, 1,650... view more (2003-06-25)

Scientists discover why plague is so lethal
Bacteria that cause the bubonic plague may be more virulent than their close relatives because of a single genetic mutation, according to research published in the May issue of the journal Microbiology.   view more (2008-05-05)

Treating bedwetting in children
Embargoed until 19.00 hours Sunday 10 August 2003 The latest issue of Effective Health Care focuses on how best to treat bedwetting in children. Bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis) affects many children and their families. Although it has a high rate of spontaneous remission, bedwetting may bring... view more (2003-08-04)

Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis
The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the developed world, according to a new study.   view more (2007-11-08)

Texas A&M researchers examine Einstein's theories on the universe
Einstein's self-proclaimed "biggest blunder" - his postulation of a cosmological constant (a force that opposes gravity and keeps the universe from collapsing) - may not be such a blunder after all, according to the research of an international team of scientists that includes two Texas... view more (2007-11-28)
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