Despite enormous progress in cancer therapy, many patients still relapse because their treatment addresses the…
Month: January 2015
Improving indoor air quality in EU schools
SINPHONIE, an EU-funded research project on indoor air quality in EU schools, and its impact…
Probiotic helps treat diabetes in rats, could lead to human remedy
Researchers have engineered a strain of lactobacillus, a human probiotic common in the gut, to…
Bad weather warnings most effective if probability included, new research suggests
Risk researchers find that the public may respond best to severe weather warnings if they…
Low sodium levels increases liver transplant survival benefit in the sickest patients
Researchers report that low levels of sodium in the blood, known as hyponatremia, increase the…
Association between parental time pressure, mental health problems among children
Children whose parents experience time pressure are more likely to have mental health problems, a…
Researchers find potential anti-cancer use for anti-epilepsy drug
A drug used widely to combat epilepsy has the potential to reduce the growth and…
Respiratory chain: Protein complex structure revealed
Mitochondria produce ATP, the energy currency of the body. The driver for this process is…
Age concern in largest ever study of heroin user deaths
Older users of opioids such as heroin are 27 times more likely to become a…
New tattoos discovered on iceman Oetzi: All of the skin marks on the mummy mapped
With the aid of a non-invasive photographic technique, researchers at the EURAC-Institute for Mummies and…