Gonorrhoea cases on the rise across Europe
It is the second most notified sexually transmitted infection in the EU/EEACredit: ECDC Following a decline in notification rates in 2016, the number of gonorrhoea...
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Biomimicry of basic instinct
Pitt chemical engineers replicate feed, fight and flight responses in catalytic chemical reactionsCredit: Abhrajit Laskar/Anna Balazs PITTSBURGH (April 22, 2019) ... Collaboration and competition are...
Study reveals massive ecological and economic impacts of woody weed invasion in Ethiopia
CABI scientists have revealed the massive ecological and economic impacts that the invasive alien tree Prosopis juliflora has had across the Afar region of north...
Alcohol relapse rate among liver transplant recipients identical regardless of sobriety period
For decades, patients with liver disease related to alcohol use have been told they must be sober for six months before they can get a...
p62 and Nrf2 are essential for exercise-mediated enhancement of antioxidant protein in muscle
Credit: Mitsuharu Okutsu Skeletal muscle mass and function becomes progressively compromised with aging, chronic disease, and physical inactivity. Oxidative stress plays an important role in...
First major study of proteins in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and...
Wristbands do a health check while you work out
Credit: © KAUST 2019 Next-generation fitness sensors could give deeper insights into human health through noninvasive testing of bodily fluids. A stretchy patch developed at...
Future Science Group begins using Publications Router
Future Science Group (FSG) has begun supplying full-text articles to Jisc's Publications Router service, enabling onward distribution to institutional repositories All journals published by Future...
Battery research at TU Graz: New breakthroughs in research on super-batteries
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz Since 2012, Stefan Freunberger of the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials at TU Graz has been working...
Researchers trace 3,000 years of monsoons through shell fossils
Credit: Katsura Yamada, Shinshu University, Japan The tiny shells at the bottom of Lake Nakaumi in southwest Japan may contain the secrets of the East...
New Hubble measurements confirm universe is expanding faster than expected
Credit: NASA, ESA, Adam Riess, and Palomar Digitized Sky Survey New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9%...
New tech will detect infant breathing problems
Wearable technology will monitor respiratory rate among new-born babies An innovative wearable sensor to monitor new-born babies in poor areas is being developed by Anglia...
Bentham’s latest eBook: Applications of NMR Spectroscopy — Vol. 7
This eBook is edited by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman and Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, published on April 3, 2019 Applications of NMR Spectroscopy is a book series...
Exploring proteomics and metabolomics through NMR studies
This eBook is edited by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, published on April 3, 2019 Bentham Science's seventh volume of Applications of NMR Spectroscopy, published by Bentham Science...
An army of micro-robots can wipe out dental plaque
A productive collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania dental and engineering schools led to the microbe-killing robots for biofilm eliminationCredit: Image: Geelsu Hwang and Edward...
