science wire

The EU research project EMBRACE at TU Ilmenau has been nominated for the European Excellence Award.

A new tool that not only identifies diet and nutrition misinformation online but also evaluates the content's risk for potential harm has been developed by a team of UCL researchers.

Researchers from Trinity, Dublin City University and University College Dublin will use funding of €670,000 from Enterprise Ireland's Commercialisation Fund to develop a breakthrough blood-based screening test.

Manchester researchers have secured nearly £1 million from UKRI to develop miniature snail inspired soft robots capable of delivering anti cancer drugs with unprecedented precision inside the human body.

A recent study by the Medical University of Vienna examines the teaching format "Feminize your Resonance!" and demonstrates how actively engaging with voice, gender and digital applications can deepen medical students' understanding of transgender people.

Hormone patches are as good at controlling locally advanced prostate cancer as the injections typically used to deliver hormone therapy, according to the results of a large clinical trial led by UCL researchers. Men with cancer that has spread just outside the prostate are given hormone therapy to suppress levels of testosterone which the cancer needs to grow.

Berend Isermann became interested in the interactions between blood vessels, inflammation and coagulation early on in his medical career. During his training in internal medicine, the desire arose to develop a better understanding of this mysterious biological process called thrombo-inflammation. Today, as Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Leipzig, this challenge has become the central theme of his scientific work.

A commentary published in Nature Mental Health by Professor Andrea Raballo, Full Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the REMEDI Lab at USI, together with Michele Poletti (IRCCS-AUSL Reggio Emilia

A recent study by the University of Zurich shows that around one in four adults in Switzerland are vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV).

Neuroscientist Sjoerd Meijer of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has shown for the first time that targeted ultrasonic sound waves can help the brain overcome fear more quickly.

Doctors often struggle to distinguish early dementia with Lewy bodies from early Parkinson's disease.

Towards shorter hospital stays: researchers explore options for outpatient stem cell therapy Multiple myeloma is a cancer in which plasma cells, which normally produce antibodies, multiply uncontrollably in the bone marrow.

In the architectural blueprint of our DNA, even a small repeating error can compromise the entire system. In Huntington's disease, a specific DNA sequence expands uncontrollably, triggering progressive neurodegeneration.

Research from The Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Sydney (USYD) reveals cervical cancer among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will not be eliminated without urgent and targeted action until 2047 - 12 years later than the federal government's target of 2035.

Like the males of many animal species, male Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies, a commonly studied lab animal, are aggressive toward one another and even fight when competing for resources such as food and females.

In Ghana, Pakistan, Rwanda, and South Africa over half of seriously injured patients fail to reach medical care within an hour of injury.

Scientists from UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital have created the first lab grown oesophagus - the food pipe - shown to safely replace a full section of the organ and restore normal function, including swallowing, in a growing animal without the need for immunosuppression. This is a major leap towards personalised regenerative treatments for children born with life threatening oesophageal conditions and could pave the way for translation to other disease areas.

Oxford University spinout Dark Blue Therapeutics has been acquired by global biotechnology company Amgen in a deal worth up to US$840 million, marking a major milestone for Oxford-led cancer research and innovation.

The study reveals novel insights into the behaviour of Cockapoos, Cavapoos and Labradoodles which can support owners considering which type of dog to purchase A new study from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has revealed that three popular designer Poodle-crossbreeds (often generically called Doodles), Cockapoos, Labradoodles and Cavapoos, often display higher levels of undesirable behaviour than their purebred parent breeds.

Dr Lucy van Dorp (UCL Genetics Institute), along with a colleague, explains in an article for The Conversation how illnesses contracted by toddlers at nursery can help strengthen their immune systems in the long term. There's no nice way to put it: small children are snotty. A research study  that tested children for multiple respiratory viruses every week for a year found that under-fives are carrying one or more viruses 50% of the time.

Based on EEG data and heart rate, the system adjusts the intensity of the exposure to the anxiety level of the participants.

In the same way Spiderman shoots his web to ensnarl his enemies, scientists have discovered a way in which our cells defend our bodies from the early stages of viral infection by synthesising a sticky 'web' to trap viral genomes.

The key health and social indicators needed for a new global system to monitor people's health before pregnancy have been identified for the first time by researchers at University College London and the University of Southampton. As more women are becoming pregnant with health conditions that can complicate pregnancy and childbirth, such as obesity, diabetes and mental illness, pre-pregnancy health has been thrown into the spotlight.

Young children who attend nursery get sick more often than those who don't, but they will go on to have fewer illnesses during early school years, finds a new review of evidence by a group of parent-scientists involving UCL researchers. All five authors of the new Clinical Microbiology Reviews paper are parents of young children, who are also researchers or clinicians at UCL, the University of Cambridge, Cornell University and North Middlesex University Hospital.

People with limited English are significantly more likely to understand the true aim of cancer treatment when given a bilingual consent form, with understanding rising from 35% to 60%, a new study finds.

The Host-Microbiota Dynamics laboratory at the Institute for Translational Research (EOC-USI), led by Professor Giandomenica Iezzi, has published a new study in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe .

The modern workplace demands that our brains perform at their best every day. A campaign offers information and advice for work and daily life to help maintain a healthy mind and memory.