Merm1 cancer target
March 26, 2014
A newly-discovered enzyme is supressed in cancer and lung inflammation and could help in the development of new drugs to target the disease. Merm1 is essential for normal functioning of...
Understanding chromatography saves pharma big money
March 25, 2014
By fine tuning a critical process in drug manufacture, researchers at Rice University say they can widen a bottleneck and save the pharmaceutical industry time and money.The new technique can...
Edinburgh student scoops Abcam award
March 24, 2014
Edinburgh student Yali Huang has won the Abcam 15 Discoveries Contest, receiving a $15,000 research grant and $1,000 worth of Abcam products. Her project – titled In vivo Differentiation Potential...
Epigenetic root to endometriosis
March 24, 2014
An epigenetic modification could be an integral component in endometriosis and its progression suggests a new theory from researchers in America. A team from Northwestern University focused on two previously...
Antimicrobial pizza herb
March 21, 2014
A simple herb used on pizzas could play an important role in defeating the winter vomiting bug say American researchers.Carvacrol – the substance found in oregano oil which gives the...
Surplus neurons could cause neurodevelopmental disorders
March 19, 2014
Autism could be caused by cells called microglia failing to trim unnecessary connections between neurons.Researchers from EMBL and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (ITT) found that by trimming surplus connections...
The slow thaw
March 19, 2014
Despite the headline-making recent insights, some maintain the Universe didn’t start with the Big Bang; instead it thawed from an extremely cold and almost static state.Professor Christof Wetterich has developed...
New evidence for Big Bang
March 17, 2014
Researchers in America believe they have found a signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansion of space that must have occurred with the Big Bang. B-mode polarisation –...
Synthetic Dirac monopoles visualised
March 17, 2014
Eighty years ago, Paul Dirac discovered a quantum-mechanical structure which allowed the existence of magnetic monopoles, a framework which has now been experimentally realised.Researchers from Aalto University and Amherst College...
Wobbly spinning top planet found
March 12, 2014
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has spotted a wobbly planet akin to a child’s spinning top near the constellation of Cygnus.Kepler-413b precesses or wobbles on its axis wildly; the tilt of...
Circadian clock sensitive to vibration
March 10, 2014
The internal circadian clock of the fruit fly can be influenced by more than just the cycle of night and day say researchers in London, who found vibration also has...
Engraving glass prevents shattering
March 7, 2014
Drop a glass on the floor and the likelihood is it will smash; do the same with a seashell and it will probably stay intact.The secret to why is held...
