Seventy per cent of eight-month-old babies have a salt intake higher than the recommended UK…
Month: July 2011
Engineering innovative hand-held lab-on-a-chip could streamline blood testing worldwide
Biomedical engineering professors have developed an innovative strategy for an integrated microfluidic-based diagnostic device that…
Genome-wide study reveals three new susceptibility loci for adult asthma in Japanese population
Researchers have identified three new loci associated with susceptibility to adult asthma in the Japanese…
Physicists show that quantum ignorance is hard to expose
No one likes a know-it-all but it turns out that a quantum know-it-all is the…
Mechanism that determines cell position in the intestinal epithelium identified
Researchers have revealed the molecular mechanisms responsible for organizing the intestinal epithelium into distinct compartments.
Computational chemistry shows the way to safer biofuels
The word “biofuel” sounds positively healthy. But even diesel based on organically grown corn can…
Discovery of a new magnetic order
Physicists have discovered a regular lattice of stable magnetic skyrmions — radial spiral structures made…
Novel gene associated with asthma in African-Americans confirmed
A new US national collaboration of asthma genetics researchers has revealed a novel gene associated…
Dissecting the genomes of crop plants to improve breeding potential
Scientists on the Norwich Research Park, working with colleagues in China, have developed new techniques…
Why Android Isn’t Popular (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – There are more smartphones powered by Android, Google’s operating system for smartphones and…