Scientific heroes are honoured
Scientists who developed products that improve health and contain safer materials have been inducted into a scientific “Hall of Fame”.
They become the newest Heroes of Chemistry, an honour bestowed by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the...
Photons used to create artificial quantum neuron
Quantum artificial intelligence edges closer to reality.
Artificial intelligence is used in various applications, such as speech interpretation, image recognition and medical diagnostics.
It has also been shown that quantum technology can be employed to achieve...
An all-natural sunscreen derived from algae
Scientists are turning to thenatural sunscreen of algae– which is also found in fishslime – to make a novel kindof shield againstthe sun’srays.
Reporting in the American Chemical Society’s journal, the team report that existing...
Promising options
German firm CellGenix has launched the CellGenixTM PSC Kit for use in stem cell production. The system can be used for expansion of human pluripotent stem cells, like human embryonic stem cells and human...
Initiative a success in treating hepatitis B
Research into Africa’s first ‘screen-and-treat’ programme for hepatitis B suggests that the initiative may reduce deadly complications of the virus.
The new findings from researchers at a number of international institutions suggest that the initiative...
Pioneering cells work leads to Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 has been awarded to three scientists whose work is adding add immensely to the understanding of human cells.
Members of the judging panel awarded the prize jointly to...
Research funding seeks to tackle diseases in farmed livestock
UK scientists have been awarded more than £6m to be spent on research to improve the health of farmed livestock.
The money has come from BBSRC’s Animal Health Research Club and eight studies will take...
Awards champion role of women
Two awards have been made to champion the work of women in medicine.
The American Medical Association’s Women Physicians Section and the AMA Foundation have announced the winners of the 2014 Joan F. Giambalvo Fund for...
Research into Parkinson’s Disease turns focus on the gut
Research carried out by a team of American researchers has suggested that gut microbes may play a critical role in the development of Parkinson’s Disease (PD).
The findings could lead to new treatments that can...
Starfish help solve evolutionary puzzle
Biologists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have discovered that the history of a hormone responsible for sexual maturity in humans can be traced to genes of starfish.
Puberty and sexual development in humans...
China links with UK to drive forward research
A collaboration between organisations in the UK and China has been agreed to further research into human and agricultural medicine.
The Medical Research Council (MRC), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Economic...
Study provides better understanding of oesophagal tumours
Researchers in Australia have cast new light on the factors that trigger a third of oesophageal tumours, the fastest rising cancer in the country.
The Queensland team have identified sudden “chromosomal catastrophes” and will now...
Strokes linked to Alzheimers, say researchers
Research conducted by the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has shown a strong link between strokes and Alzheimer’s Disease.
The work reveals that cerebrovascular diseases (stroke) are...
XBiotech announces research collaboration
XBiotech’s True Human product IL-1 alpha is to be used in researching treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
US company XBiotech Inc, a developer of True Human(TM) therapeutic antibodies, has started a collaboration designed to...
Losing your mobile ‘could be more than simply irritating’
We all know that feeling when we misplace our mobile phone. Irritation and frustration can ensue and,
in more extreme cases, bouts
of anger.
However, now new research has suggested that there could be medical...
Tracing the origins of HIV pandemic
It has always been known that the HIV pandemic began in Africa but there was little to say where it originated. Until now.
An international team, led by scientists from Oxford University in the UK...