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One-size-fits-all synthetic blood

June 16, 2014
News
Donated blood has a short shelf-life – only 35 days for red cells – but now researchers in Essex hope to improve this by developing a synthetic blood substitute. The...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology
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Proteome catalogue reveals 193 unknown proteins

June 13, 2014
News
A proteome catalogue has revealed 193 novel proteins in regions of the genome not predicted to code for proteins, suggesting the human genome is more complex than previously thought. Using...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Proteomics & Genomics
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Molecular scaffold key to neurodegenerative disease

June 13, 2014
News
A molecular scaffold that allows key parts of the cell to communicate falls apart in dementia and motor neuron disease; a finding which offers a new target for drug discovery....
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Neuroscience
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Supernova explosions recreated in the lab

June 12, 2014
News
A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times more powerful than laser pointers. An international team of researchers used the Vulcan laser at...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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That ‘gut feeling’ explained

June 11, 2014
News
By severing the brain-gut communication channel, researchers have got to the bottom of the proverbial gut instinct when it comes to fear. Communication between the brain and gut occurs via...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Neuroscience
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Deep sea root of marine evolution sparks controversy

June 11, 2014
News
The deep ocean may have played a much bigger role in protecting marine diversity than first thought suggests controversial new research from the University of Portsmouth. Fossils of starfish, sea...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Marine Biology, Paleobiology
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Incentives needed to encourage data sharing

June 10, 2014
News
New types of incentives within the biomedical research community are necessary to improve sharing of large research datasets suggests a new report. The report from the EAGDA (the Expert Advisory...
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences
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New method to detect counterfeit drugs

June 9, 2014
News
Counterfeit medicines could now be detected more efficiently thanks to a new chemical analysis method developed by researchers at the University of Montreal. The method identifies and quantifies the various...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Mega-Earth found in Kepler-10c

June 6, 2014
News
The ‘Godzilla of Earths’ has been discovered by astronomers; the new type of planet is a mega-Earth; a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. It was believed...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Soft touch gone awry in autism

June 5, 2014
News
Nerves in the skin that respond to gentle touch may go awry in disorders such as autism say researchers in Liverpool. Using a range of scientific techniques, researchers from Liverpool...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Neuroscience
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Aerospace company set to communicate with NASA spacecraft

June 4, 2014
News
Aerospace company SkyCorp Inc have been given the go ahead to attempt to communicate with a 35-year-old NASA spacecraft. International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) was launched in 1978 to study the...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Celebrating Great British Science

June 3, 2014
News
Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution, has nominated Faraday’s electro-magnetic induction ring as his Great British Scientific breakthroughAfter about ten years of searching Michael...
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemistry, Physics
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