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Structural biology spin-out tackles major diseases

Biology /

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A spin out company from basic structural biology, Asterion Ltd., has led to new technology that provides a way of creating therapeutic proteins to tackle major diseases such as cancer, diabetes and infertility. The research ...





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Virtual solution to driving phobias

Virtual solution to driving phobias

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.


Malaria Millennium Development Goal 'unlikely to be met'

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria globally is unlikely to be met, according to Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Professor Bob Snow. The statement comes in ...


Ecological impact of African cities

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

African cities are growing faster than anywhere else in the world. This is having a major impact, but few ecologists are studying the urban environment and effect of cities on rural areas. One of the most important ecological ...


Mixing it up with E. coli

Chemistry /

created Jan 15, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Poetry in motion may seem like an odd way to describe swimming bacteria, but that's what researchers at Drexel University got when they enlisted Escherichia coli (E. coli) in an effort to tackle a major problem in developing ...


15 human genomes each week

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 2

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has sequenced the equivalent of 300 human genomes in just over six months. The Institute has just reached the staggering total of 1,000,000,000,000 letters of genetic code that will be ...


New drug to stop tuberculosis epidemic

New drug to stop tuberculosis epidemic

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 06, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Manchester are developing a new drug against tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest human infectious diseases, which is now threatening to reach epidemic proportions once more.


Natural gas as answer to oil decline could lead to catastrophe, says leading expert

Technology / Energy

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 7

Ploughing resources into the use of natural gas as an alternative energy supply could lead to global shortage within 20 years time, according to a leading energy expert.


Understanding teen attitudes critical to quit message

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Teen attitudes to smoking need to be re-examined if anti-smoking health campaigns are to be effective, according to Hunter researchers.


Enjoying school key to tackling teenage pregnancy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Youth development programmes that tackle deprivation and help children and young people enjoy school are successful in reducing teenage pregnancy rates, say researchers in BMJ today.


Methane from microbes: a fuel for the future

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created Dec 10, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Microbes could provide a clean, renewable energy source and use up carbon dioxide in the process, suggested Dr James Chong at a Science Media Centre press briefing today.



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