Cheaper and more sustainable sweeteners
Credit: Public Domain Polyalcohols are widely used in the food industry, especially in candy and gum because they bring the...
Follow-up by trained nurses helps myocardial infarction patients
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The quality of life of elderly myocardial infarction patients can...
Beware: Children can passively ‘smoke’ marijuana, too
Relaxing with a joint around children is not very wise. Not only do youngsters inhale harmful secondary smoke in the...
Understanding necrophilia: A global interdisciplinary approach (cognella)
Credit: University of Huddersfield NO case of necrophilia has ever come before UK courts, although British awareness of the offence...
Plants engineered to express a fruit fly gene may help clean up environmental pollutant
Through a process called phytoremediation, researchers are using plants to clean up land contaminated with TNT, a toxic environmental pollutant...
Molecular switches researched in detail
(Ruhr-University Bochum) Seeing, smelling, tasting, regulation of blood pressure -- molecular switches are involved in all of these processes. The...
Springer offers flexible purchasing option for Springer Book Archives
Credit: Springer Springer now offers its Springer Book Archives (SBA) in smaller year set packages. The new SBA packages are...
Major urinary proteins do not allow kin recognition in male mice
Credit: Kerstin Thonhauser/Vetmeduni Vienna The urine of house mice, unlike humans, contains large amounts of proteins, which are mainly major...
Miraculous proliferation
Researchers from a group led by ETH professor Martin Loessner discovered a few years ago that rod-shaped Listeria can become...
Queen’s University expert leading 4m bid to reduce impact of chemicals on long-term health
(Queen's University Belfast) A Queen's University Belfast expert is leading a 4m international initiative to investigate whether natural toxins and...
Fighting contaminated land with help from the humble fruit
Scientists have discovered that a gene found in the common fruit fly can be successfully expressed in a plant and...
‘Pulling’ bacteria out of blood
Blood poisoning is still fatal in more than 50% of cases, but can be cured if treated at an early...
Public urged to be more body vigilant in fight against cancer, new study finds
New study urges people to be more body vigilant to improve early cancer diagnosis rates. Over a quarter of patients...
UTHealth scientists discover way of developing test for Parkinson’s disease diagnosis
HOUSTON - (Dec. 6, 2016) - Misfolded proteins associated with Parkinson's disease were detected in cerebrospinal fluid by scientists at...
Research into the theoretical bases of future wireless communications
The research project to be carried out by Tobias Koch will be within the UC3M Signal Theory and Communications Department,...
DFG congratulates Manfred Curbach on winning the Deutscher Zukunftspreis
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) congratulates Dresden-based construction engineer Professor Dr.-Ing. Manfred Curbach on winning the 2016 Deutscher...
Articles published in journals on ARPHA indexed by ReadCube for easier discoverability
Credit: ReadCube and ZooKeys While research outputs are being published at a rate greater than ever, it is becoming more...
Virtual reality in medicine: New opportunities for diagnostics and surgical planning
Credit: Screenshot: University of Base Before an operation, surgeons have to obtain the most precise image possible of the anatomical...
Healthy weight only protects women from hot flashes during the early stages of menopause
Greater weight increases the likelihood of night sweats and hot flashes during early stages of the menopause transition but reduces...
How our immune system targets TB
Credit: Imaging CoE Every 18 seconds someone dies from tuberculosis (TB). It is the world's most deadly infectious disease. Mycobacterium...
