Fish are being increasingly exposed to endocrine disrupters

Specific cell population plays a key role in the affect arthritis has on the body and the pain patients feel, study finds. Scientists at the University of Birmingham have led a study which has identified a new specific population of cells that plays a key role in the affect arthritis has on the body and the subsequent pain felt by patients.

Researchers involved in a major COVID-19 study - launched in Scotland earlier in the year to understand the long-term health of people who have had COVID-19 - are encouraging the public to participate if they receive a new invitation.

Dark-field X-ray technology improves diagnosis of pulmonary ailments - For the first time, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully used a new X-ray method for respiratory diagnostics with patients.

Microplastics, owing to their chemical properties, can carry micropollutants into a fish's digestive system where they are subsequently released through the action of its gastric and intestinal fluids. scientists, working in association with other research institutes, have studied this process by looking specifically at progesterone - often pointed to as an endocrine disrupter.

Climate 'tipping points' can be better understood and predicted using climate change data taken from the ancient past, new research shows.

There's been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection - a parasite which causes serious disease in tens of millions of people globally.

A UNIGE-led team has studied the fossil rivers of the Egyptian Sahara to reconstruct the region's rainfall rates that led to a major migration of people away from the Nile valley 10,000 years ago.

New research by University of Warwick researchers highlights the challenges faced by hospices in West Midlands. Early findings of a new research project have found that hospices in the West Midlands felt they were "overlooked" at key moments during the pandemic.