Month: April 2018

'It's a major advance in understanding how food allergy starts' There are potential ways to intervene early to avoid developing ...

European Research Council invests EUR 650 million in advanced frontier research

How does air pollution affect the development of baby's brains? Can innovative heart regeneration treatments increase the long-term survival of ...

Researchers develop transparent patch to detect dangerous food threats

Credit: McMaster University Is that meat still good? Are you sure? McMaster researchers have developed a test to bring certainty ...

New blood test found to predict onset of TB up to two years in advance

Credit: ATS April 6, 2018 -- A new blood test has been found to more accurately predict the development of ...

£1 million funds 7 grants for pancreatic cancer research

(Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund) Seven research projects have been awarded grants totaling £1.1 million by the UK medical research charity, ...

School lunch decisions made by the child and not the parent

Philadelphia, April 6, 2018 - While school lunches in the UK are subject to food standards, the contents of packed ...

Experts team up to study bluefin tuna and confirm return to UK waters

Credit: Tom Horton Atlantic bluefin tuna are known for being amongst the biggest, fastest and most valuable fish in the ...

Genetics of the modern heirs of the Inkas shed new lights about their origins and lineages

A multinational South American team from Peru, Brasil and Bolivia led by the Universidad de San Martin de Porres at ...

Hybrid swarm in global mega-pest

Australian scientists have confirmed the hybridisation of two of the world's major pest species, into a new and improved mega-pest. ...

Caltech scientists breed bacteria that make tiny high-energy carbon rings

Credit: Caltech Caltech scientists have created a strain of bacteria that can make small but energy-packed carbon rings that are ...

NUS engineers pioneer greener and cheaper technique for biofuel production

Credit: National University of Singapore A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a ...

OIST to harness energy from ocean waves in the Maldives

Credit: OIST The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ...

It’s all about the (stem cell) neighborhood

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Stem cells have the ability to develop, or differentiate, into the many different cell types in ...

Bertarelli Symposium 2018 to tackle the mysteries of the senses

Our senses -- vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, pain -- form the very foundation of our ability to understand and ...

Better roads essential for safer cycling

Credit: QUT CARRS-Q A QUT-led study of Queensland motorists and cyclists recommends that efforts to improve cyclist safety during overtaking ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc on delicate relationship between orchids and bees

Credit: University of Sussex The first definitive demonstration of climate change upsetting the vital interdependent relationships between species has been ...

New immunotherapy for lung cancer shows promise of success

Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina In a groundbreaking development, results from a recent clinical trial to treat ...

An index measures similarity between cancer cells and pluripotent stem cells

The theory that cancer progression involves the acquisition by tumor cells of features similar to those of stem cells has ...

Columbia scientists build better way to decode the genome

Credit: Credit: Mann Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute The genome is the body's instruction manual. It contains the raw information -- in ...

Attention deficit disorders could stem from impaired brain coordination