Se retrasa hasta un año la concesión de ayudas para 940 investigadores y personal técnico. El programa supone 104 millones de euros ||| Fuente : http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/materia/noticias/~3...

Marine scientists have long understood the detrimental effect of fossil fuel emissions on marine ecosystems. But a group has found a point of resilience in a microscopic shelled plant with a massive environmental impact, which suggests the future of ocean life may not be so bleak. Fuente :...

Adding a photo of a face to X-ray images can reduce "wrong-patient" errors five-fold, a new study finds. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/X...

New research suggests that more sugar in the body could damage the elastic proteins that help us breathe and pump blood. The findings could have health implications for diabetics, who have high blood-glucose levels. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/B...

Mathematical estimates of treatment outcomes can cut costs and provide faster delivery of preventative measures. South Africa is home to the largest HIV epidemic in the world with a total of 5.6 million people living with HIV. Large-scale clinical trials evaluating combination methods of prevention...

Investigadores de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid y Bankinter Labs han desarrollado un sistema que sugiere a los usuarios de móvil aquellos establecimientos comerciales que se ajustan mejor a sus preferencias. Para ello la aplicación analiza los patrones de consumo y el comportamiento del...

Un equipo de expertos ha desvelado las claves genéticas de la distrofia muscular de cinturas 1F, una enfermedad rara que no cuenta con tratamiento todavía. El hallazgo, publicado recientemente en la revista Brain, abre la puerta al conocimiento de la fisiopatología de esta enfermedad. Fuente :...

Un estudio en 5.034 pacientes diabéticos sometidos a distintos tratamientos para controlar su enfermedad coronaria no fueron capaces de controlar, en un año, los cuatro factores de riesgo más importantes: colesterol, presión sanguínea, glicemia y tabaquismo.  Fuente :...

La investigación, ha analizado interacciones de polinización en 5 islas de Galápagos, estudiadas sólo de forma puntual hasta el momento. De las 758 interacciones detectadas entre 60 especies de plantas y más de 200 animales polinizadores, un 38% han mostrado involucrar a especies exóticas, con...

El 'policía medioambiental' del gigantesco aeropuerto privado de Ciudad Real dimite por los incumplimientos de los promotores de la instalación, cerrada y sin aviones ||| Fuente : http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/materia/noticias/~3...

Derya Sert, una joven turca de 22 años que nació sin útero, fue en 2011 la primera mujer en el mundo en recibir el trasplante de este órgano con éxito. La fecundación in vitro se intentó el pasado lunes, y unos días después los doctores anunciaron su embarazo.  Fuente :...

El primer estudio a escala nacional sobre salud cardiovascular que se realiza en un país europeo muestra que los niveles ideales de salud cardiovascular de los españoles son tan bajos como los de los estadounidenses. Las causas pueden estar detrás de un estilo de vida poco saludable que afecta a un...

Axons, the long, cable-like projections on neurons, are made stronger by a unique modification of the common molecular building block of the cell skeleton. The finding, which may help guide the search for treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, was reported in the April 10 issue of Neuron by...

University of Missouri investigators found that propranolol, a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure, anxiety and panic, improves the working memory performance of individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uom...

A brain-training task that increases the number of items an individual can remember over a short period of time may boost performance in other problem-solving tasks by enhancing communication between different brain areas. The new study being presented this week in San Francisco is one of a growing...

A newly published study of patients with pulmonary fibrosis has discovered multiple genetic variations that should help with future efforts to treat the disease. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uoc...

A forthcoming article in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology reveals shifts in the mechanisms bats use to regulate metabolism throughout their seasonal activity period. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uoc...

Specific DNA once dismissed as junk plays an important role in brain development and might be involved in several devastating neurological diseases, UC San Francisco scientists have found. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uoc...

Princeton University researchers have found that it might be the information rather than the brain's decision-making process that is to blame. The researchers report in the journal Science that erroneous decisions tend to arise from errors, or "noise," in the information coming into the brain...

Researchers from North Carolina State University believe they have solved a puzzle that has long vexed science.The researchers provide the first three-dimensional model of an enzyme that links a simple sugar, glucose, into long-chain cellulose, the basic building block within plant cell walls that...

Using insights gained from studying two much rarer disorders, Down Syndrome and Niemann Pick-C disease, researchers at the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome and the Department of Neurology of the University of Colorado School of Medicine found that cholesterol wreaks havoc on the orderly...

Projections of rainfall changes from global warming have been very uncertain because scientists could not determine how two different mechanisms will impact rainfall. The two mechanisms turn out to complement each other and together shape the spatial distribution of seasonal rainfall in the...

Bioengineered rat kidneys successfully produced urine both in a laboratory apparatus and after being transplanted into living animals. The research team built functional replacement kidneys on the structure of donor organs from which living cells had been stripped, an approach previously used to create bioartificial hearts,...

Engineers have invented a "nanosponge" capable of safely removing a broad class of dangerous toxins from the bloodstream -- including toxins produced by MRSA, E. coli, poisonous snakes and bees. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/J...

A new 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost 10-fold, and mostly since the mid 20th Century. Summer ice melt affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/W...

CRISPR, a system of genes that bacteria use to defend themselves against viruses, has been found to be involved in helping some bacteria evade the mammalian immune system. Scientists have shown that Francisella novicida, a close relative of the bacterium that causes tularemia, and another bacterium that causes meningitis, need...

A new chemical process can transform waste sulfur into a lightweight plastic that may improve batteries for electric cars, reports a new study. Scientists have successfully used the new plastic to make lithium-sulfur batteries. The team's discovery could provide a new use for the sulfur left over when oil and natural gas are...

Due to their high energy density, lithium-ion batteries are used in many commercial electronic appliances. They are also believed to exhibit no memory effect. That’s how experts call a deviation in the voltage of the battery that can limit the usability of the stored energy as well as the ability to determine the state of...

Using a tiny ball of ice, a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment called cryoneurolysis safely short circuits chronic pain caused by nerve damage, according to new data. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/m...