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![More than one million people diagnosed with asthma may be wrongly diagnosed, and are unnecessarily taking medication that can have significant side effects. A recent […]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/5950870440_77a79721b4_o-195x110.jpg "One third of adults with Asthma may be wrongly diagnosed.")
One third of adults with Asthma may be wrongly diagnosed.
Posted on February 2, 2015 | No CommentsMore than one million people diagnosed with asthma may be wrongly diagnosed, and are unnecessarily taking medication that can have significant side effects. A recent […] -
![Around one in ten Australian children have a food allergy and around three in one hundred are allergic to peanuts. Researcher Mimi Tang blames […]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/peanuts-195x110.jpg "Warning : May contain Peanuts !")
Warning : May contain Peanuts !
Posted on February 1, 2015 | No CommentsAround one in ten Australian children have a food allergy and around three in one hundred are allergic to peanuts. Researcher Mimi Tang blames […] -
![How do you like your eggs in the morning? What about boiled and then unboiled again? Chemists at the University of California, Irvine, have recently […]](/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/News-image-01-115x115.jpg "Scientists work out how ‘unboil’ part of an egg")
Scientists work out how ‘unboil’ part of an egg
Posted on February 1, 2015 | No CommentsHow do you like your eggs in the morning? What about boiled and then unboiled again? Chemists at the University of California, Irvine, have recently […] -
![Have a problem sheet due tomorrow? Have you already booked a table at the library, stocked up on caffeine tablets and chocolate? You might want to […]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/NEWSICON2-115x115.png "The Might of the All-nighter")
The Might of the All-nighter
Posted on February 1, 2015 | No CommentsHave a problem sheet due tomorrow? Have you already booked a table at the library, stocked up on caffeine tablets and chocolate? You might want to […] -
Stimulation reverses memory and learning deficits in mice
Posted on February 1, 2015 | No CommentsLearning and memory deficits caused by brain lesions in rats have been completely reversed through stimulation of the hypothalamus. The research, conducted by scientists at […] -
Breakthrough Made In Efforts To Read Herculaneum Scrolls
Posted on February 1, 2015 | No CommentsScientists are on the verge of being able to read a library of ancient Roman scrolls for the first time. The collection of scrolls, from […] -
Plain Cigarette Packaging to be Determined Before the General Election, says Cameron
Posted on January 27, 2015 | No CommentsMandatory plain-packaging for cigarettes has been a contentious issue within the Conservative Party. Whilst it has been praised by health campaigners for some time, many […] -
Autism-like Symptoms Reversed by Sleeping Sickness Drug
Posted on January 25, 2015 | 3 CommentsResearchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine reported in the online journal ‘Molecular Autism’ that suranim, used for nearly a century as a drug […] -
Men and Women Process Emotions Differently, Study Finds
Posted on January 25, 2015 | No CommentsIt is often suggested that females are the more emotional of the two genders. Though this may not exactly be the case, a research team […] -
![Researchers at Harvard Medical School, led by George Church, have developed an effective method of ‘bio-containment’, preventing a strain of E. coli from growing outside […]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/News-image-01-300x169-115x115.jpg "Successful Imprisonment of GMO")
Successful Imprisonment of GMO
Posted on January 25, 2015 | No CommentsResearchers at Harvard Medical School, led by George Church, have developed an effective method of ‘bio-containment’, preventing a strain of E. coli from growing outside […] -
![Research at Duke University, led by Nenad Bursac, has developed the first bioartificial human skeletal muscle that contracts and responds to electrical and chemical signals. […]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/News-image-01-300x1691-115x115.jpg "Bioartificial Human Muscle")
Bioartificial Human Muscle
Posted on January 18, 2015 | No CommentsResearch at Duke University, led by Nenad Bursac, has developed the first bioartificial human skeletal muscle that contracts and responds to electrical and chemical signals. […] -
![Last week new legislation was passed in the EU which will be likely to make a large impact on European agriculture. Governments now have more power […]](/wp-content/themes/arras/arras/images/thumbnail.png "EU relaxes regulations on GM crops")
EU relaxes regulations on GM crops
Posted on January 18, 2015 | No CommentsLast week new legislation was passed in the EU which will be likely to make a large impact on European agriculture. Governments now have more power […] -
Chefs of the future? Cooking robots learn by watching YouTube videos
Posted on January 17, 2015 | No CommentsThe ability to learn actions from human demonstrations is one of the major challenges for the development of intelligent systems. However, researchers from the University […] -
Human Trials Begin for Second Ebola Vaccine
Posted on January 14, 2015 | No CommentsThe current Ebola outbreak – which has affected over 20,000 people, killing more than 8,000 – may soon become somewhat more manageable with the development […]
