Buruli ulcer: Promising new drug candidate against a forgotten disease
Buruli ulcer - one of the most neglected among the NTDs - is a debilitating and stigmatising disease. Affecting mainly children in West and Central...
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Takeaway containers — the environmental cost of packing our favorite fast-foods
Scientists say more should be done to tackle the growing environmental impact of takeaway food containers. A new study estimates there are 2025 million takeaway...
Brain health not affected by major heart surgery
New study offers important and novel way to look at 'old problem' of cognitive dysfunctionCredit: Elsevier Chicago, December 18, 2018 Patients who undergo heart surgery...
Flowers originated 50 million years earlier than previously thought
Credit: NIGPAS Analysis of fossil specimens of a flower called Nanjinganthus from the Early Jurassic (more than 174 million years ago) suggests that flowers originated...
Sofosbuvir rids organism of chikungunya and yellow fever viruses
The medication is already used to treat hepatitis C and has passed all human use approval tests, so it can be fairly easily deployed if...
Milken Institute releases index ranking states on tech and innovation
Massachusetts, Colorado, Maryland, California, and Utah are top five for high-tech innovation, education, and investment LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18, 2018 - Massachusetts retained its No....
Ten group leaders across Europe supported by EMBO Installation Grants
Heidelberg, 18 December 2018 - EMBO announces today the award of ten Installation Grants to early-career researchers establishing their independent laboratories in the Czech Republic,...
ECDC: Influenza vaccination coverage rates insufficient across EU member states
None of the European Union (EU) Member States could demonstrate that they reach the EU target of 75% influenza vaccination coverage for vulnerable groups, according...
HKU fossil imaging helps push back feather origins by 70 million years
Credit: @Reconstruction by Yuan Zhang In a new study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, an international team led by Professor Baoyu Jiang...
29 joint research projects for Berlin and Oxford
Berlin partners and the University of Oxford consolidate their cooperation The research partnership between the University of Oxford and the four Berlin partners - Freie...
Peering into Little Foot's 3.67 million-year-old brain
First ever endocast reconstruction of the nearly complete brain of the hominin known as Little Foot reveals a small brain combining ape-like and human-like featuresCredit:...
Predicting inhibitor for multidrug resistance associated protein-2 transporter
This article by Dr. Prabha Garg et al. is published in Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, Volume 21 , Issue 8 , 2018 The...
TiO2 NP & catalyst for the synthesis of benzopyrano benzopyranone and xanthenol in water
This article by Dr. Shahrzad Abdolmohammadi is published in Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, Volume 15 , Issue 10 , 2018 Many results of...
HPV discovery raises hope for new cervical cancer treatments
Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have made a discovery about human papillomavirus (HPV)...
Get a warrant: researchers demand better DNA protections
New laws are required to control access to medical genetic data by law enforcement agencies, an analysis by University of Queensland researchers has found. The...
