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Winter weather set to get more erratic

September 12, 2014
News
Extreme variations in pressure over the North Atlantic are responsible for our increasingly erratic winter weather. Conditions in the UK range from mild, wet and stormy, to incredibly cold and...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Why do HIV patients develop dementia?

September 11, 2014
News
Life expectancy for patients with HIV has increased thanks to combination anti-retroviral therapy, but long-term maladies, including dementia, are becoming more prevalent. Almost one-in-two HIV patients are affected by the...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Immunology, Virology
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New heart drug beats current gold standard

September 10, 2014
News
Clinical trials of a new drug to treat heart failure were brought to an early close after results showed it outperformed the current gold standard. Writing in the New England...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Biomimetic sheets offer improved chemical functionality

September 10, 2014
News
A two-dimensional biomimetic material with customisable properties able to self-assemble at an oil-water interface has been developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The research could pave the way to...
Materials
Materials Science
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Protein synthesis offer clues to memory loss

September 9, 2014
News
A new method of identifying proteins as they are created in the body could offer insight into why learning and memory becomes impaired in Alzheimer’s disease. Using Caenorhabditis elegans as...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology
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Engineered E. coli turns fatty acids into propane

September 8, 2014
News
By engineering a protein found in the gut, researchers have generated renewable propane and taken a step towards producing a commercially-viable alternative to traditional fossil fuels. Using a new variant...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
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Galaxy forming stars at ferocious rate

September 5, 2014
News
A galaxy giving birth to new stars at a ferocious rate has been spotted by NASA astronomers. Dubbed Sparky, the fully-developed elliptical galaxy is a gas-deficient mass of ancient stars...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Lithium problem solved…almost

September 4, 2014
News
Lithium has proved to be a stubborn problem for astrophysicists; the quantities predicted to have resulted from the Big Bang are not present in stars, but the figures have recently...
Physics & Engineering
Astrophysics, Physics
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Same mechanism implicated in type-1 and type-2 diabetes

September 3, 2014
News
Both type-1 and type-2 diabetes are caused by the same underlying mechanism say researchers in Manchester and Auckland. The hormone amylin forms toxic clumps which destroy both insulin- and amylin-producing...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Medical Diagnostics
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Rock breaking research offers insight into fracking

September 2, 2014
News
In a ground breaking discovery, geologists have discovered what else escapes from fractured shale other than methane.The finding, published in Environmental Science and Technology could have important implications for fracking,...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Environmental Chemistry, Geology
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Fast-tracked Ebola vaccine to enter trials

August 29, 2014
News
A potential vaccine against the Zaire species of Ebola, which has currently claimed 1,550 lives in West Africa, is to be tested on healthy patients in the UK and US....
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Virology
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Epigenetic changes play role in Alzheimer’s

August 28, 2014
News
Researchers say they have amassed some of the strongest evidence yet to show that epigenetic changes have a role to play in Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers from King’s College London and...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Proteomics & Genomics
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