Month: October 2018

The BfR is involved with two work groups in the project, which is being coordinated by the Dutch National Institute ...

The BfR has no reliable data on the chemical composition, particle size and content of microplastic particles in foodstuffs. Due ...

Where 45 percent were previously concerned about microplastics in food, this number has now risen by 11 percentage points to ...

People who regularly take cocaine cut with the animal anti-worming agent levamisole demonstrate impaired cognitive performance and a thinned prefrontal ...

The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) has succeeded in increasing the proportion of donations from black South Africans fivefold, ...

When bones break more easily in old age, osteoporosis is often to blame. However, the cause of the disease and ...

A drug discovery made at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki', Finland, will increase the safety of animal ...

(Goethe University Frankfurt) Robert Tampé, Director of the Institute of Biochemistry at Goethe University, has received €1.5 million from the ...

People who have had a colectomy have increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers from the University of Copenhagen ...

SINGAPORE, 31 October 2018 - Breakthrough research to culture human skin cells called keratinocytes to produce skin grafts has been ...

Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology, in cooperation with researchers ...

Credit: Zhen Gu Research Lab/UCLA Samueli A cancer therapy based on fusing two types of cells into a single unit ...

Credit: Dr. Aparna Gudlur, La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--All mammalian cells need a ready supply of calcium ...

Credit: Jeff Heckman Infants born at home have more diverse bacteria in their guts and feces, which may affect their ...

BOSTON, MA -A pioneering study conducted within a nationwide network, the National Patient Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet), finds that ...

Only one in 30 children does the recommended amount of daily physical activity, new research suggests. Guidelines from the Chief ...

The findings build on anecdotal evidence for the use of rose geranium oil to treat nasal vestibulitis, which affects the ...

Credit: (Image courtesy PLOS Computational Biology) New research focusing on how brain structure may impact brain activity and ultimately human ...

Researchers studying the sharp decline between 1980 and 2010 in documented landings of the four most commercially-important bivalve mollusks - ...

The future looks challenging for plants. Climate change is forecast to bring widespread drought to parts of the planet already ...