Growing older is a fact of life, but people’s hopes, fears, pre-conceptions and experiences surrounding the ageing process are richly diverse. As part of the Festival of Social Science organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to highlight how social science impacts on our daily lives, researchers from Swansea University are organising a [...]
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon patients who request physician aid in dying under Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act often rate concerns about future illness symptoms as a leading motivator. The findings are the result of an Oregon Health & Science University study published in the March 9 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine. “Our data [...]
DALLAS – March 9, 2009 – A newly discovered receptor in a strain of Escherichia coli might help explain why people often get sicker when they’re stressed. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are the first to identify the receptor, known as QseE, which resides in a diarrhea-causing strain of E coli. The receptor senses [...]
This is Madhu Singh, University of Iowa research scientist, at work in his lab. A recent paper published by Singh and colleagues sheds light on biochemical pathways related to post-heart attack inflammation in heart muscle. Credit: University of Iowa A new study led by University of Iowa researchers has found an unexpected new link between [...]
A computer screen shows the electrical activity of a specialized heart cell called a sinoatrial nodal cell. This type of cell can beat on its own without electrical stimulation, allowing scientist to see its activity when extracted. Information gleaned is contributing to understanding heart-pacing changes that occur during the body’s “fight or flight” response to [...]
Fifteen-year-old males who ate fish at least once a week displayed higher cognitive skills at the age of 18 than those who it ate it less frequently, according to a study of nearly 4,000 teenagers published in the March issue of Acta Paediatrica. Eating fish once a week was enough to increase combined, verbal and [...]
The Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in Xi’an, China-Research, has shown that the substantial undercooling of liquid state brings about novel microstructural transition for Al-Cu-Si ternary eutectic alloy. The study is reported in Issue 54 (January, 2009) of Chinese Science Bulletin because of its significant research value. Al–Cu–Si alloy is widely applied [...]
The possibility of remote monitoring for chronically ill patients will soon become a reality. Now, researchers in South Africa and Australia have devised a decentralized system to avoid medical data overload. They describe the peer-to-peer system in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology. People with a range of chronic [...]
Research led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use doughnuts shaped by-products of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light, opening up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective light based computing to the possibility of “slow glass”. The key to this new research is the “exciton”. This [...]
