The 8th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals yielded 124 eligible proposals of which 44 were accepted. The trend for larger allocations to each project continues, increasing the competition for Tier-0 resources. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

Un equipo de voluntarios ha comido medio kilo de fresas al día durante un mes para ver si se producía alguna variación en sus parámetros sanguíneos. Tras finalizar este peculiar tratamiento, sus niveles de colesterol malo y triglicéridos se redujeron de forma significativa, según los análisis...

“El Área Marina Protegida creada en torno al archipiélago de Chagos es un nuevo obstáculo que colocó el gobierno británico para impedirnos volver a nuestra patria”, afirmó Olivier Bancoult, líder de una asociación de refugiados de ese grupo de islas en el océano Índico. En los últimos 40 años, los chagosianos han llevado...

El gobierno de Estados Unidos anunció que otorgará sustanciales garantías de crédito a dos nuevos reactores nucleares, en lo que representa un gran impulso al primer proyecto de energía atómica en este país en más de tres décadas.  La industria nuclear, preocupada por su viabilidad en el actual...

Rutgers researchers have documented a direct connection between the use of acupuncture and physical processes that could alleviate sepsis, a condition that often develops in hospital intensive care units, springs from infection and inflammation, and takes an estimated 250,000 lives in the United...

New research from the University of Toronto Scarborough shows that animal dispersal is influenced by a gene associated with feeding and food search behaviors. The study, which was carried out by UTSC professor Mark Fitzpatrick and Ph.D. student Allan Edelsparre, provides one of the first aimed at...

Protected natural areas in Costa Rica reduced poverty by 16 percent in neighboring communities, mainly by encouraging ecotourism, according to new research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/gsu...

Scientists are revealing how microbes living on floating pieces of plastic marine debris affect the ocean ecosystem, and the potential harm they pose to invertebrates, humans and other animals. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/agu...

Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that could serve as a nanopump. They may also, incidentally, shed light on the origin of life itself. Fuente :...

Tiny and swift, viruses are hard to capture on video. Now researchers at Princeton University have achieved an unprecedented look at a virus-like particle as it tries to break into and infect a cell. The technique they developed could help scientists learn more about how to deliver drugs via...

Women who carry a BRCA gene mutation and opt for a preventive oophorectomy, or ovary removal surgery, have a 77 percent lower risk of death than those who do not, according to a new study led by Women's College Hospital's Amy Finch and Dr. Steven Narod. Fuente :...

The findings of a large international prospective study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology suggest for the first time that women with BRCA1 mutations should have preventive ovarian surgery (prophylactic oophorectomy) by age 35, as waiting until a later age appears to increase the risk of...

This release contains summaries, links to PDFs, and contact information for the following newsworthy papers published online, Feb. 24, 2014, in the JCI. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/joc...

A theoretical paper with lead author Tamika Zapolski, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, examines a paradox in African-American drinking. African-Americans report initiation to drinking at an older age, lower rates...

Native red squirrels have declined throughout Britain and Ireland for the last century due to a combination of habitat loss and the introduction of the North American eastern grey squirrel. More recently its few remaining populations have been devastated by an insidious pox virus passed to them by...

Results of three-year field trial to test whether potatoes engineered to recognize blight (so their natural defense mechanisms are activated) can withstand races of blight in the UK. Genetically modified Desiree potatoes survived, while 100 percent of non-GM ones were infected. Fuente :...

Although some advocates want to lower the legal drinking age from 21, research continues to show that the law saves lives. That's the finding of a new review published in a special supplemental issue to the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Fuente :...

A new analysis has found that adolescents and young adults who develop thyroid cancer as a secondary cancer have a significantly greater risk of dying than those with primary thyroid cancer. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/w-s...

A computerized safety checklist that automatically pulls information from patients' electronic medical records was associated with a threefold drop in rates of one serious type of hospital-acquired infection, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and...

Kathleen Neville, M.D., M.S., a physician at Children's Mercy Hospital, recently led an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) committee in updating the policy with new recommendations guiding the off-label use of drugs in pediatric patients. Fuente :...

A new study from Aarhus University, Denmark, settles an important question about how social understanding is performed in the brain. The findings may help us to attain a better understanding of why people with autism and schizophrenia have difficulties with social interaction. Fuente :...

University of Connecticut chemists have discovered a new way of making monomodal mesoporous metal oxides that allows for greater manufacturing controls and has significantly broader applications than the longtime industry standard. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/uoc...

The United Kingdom urgently needs a green economic strategy to move towards low-carbon prosperity, resource security and environmental quality, says a new report. The report identifies innovation, infrastructure and information as the key areas in which policies are needed to support a green...

The key characteristics of birds which allow them to fly -- their wings and their small size -- arose much earlier than previously thought, according to new research that examined closely the Paraves, the first birds, and their closest dinosaurian relatives which lived 160 to 120 million years ago....

A synthetic form of low-molecular-weight heparin has been created that can be reversed in cases of overdose and would be safer for patients with poor kidney function. Heparin is an anticoagulant, and is most commonly extracted from pig intestines in two forms: unfractionated heparin, which is...

Researchers have identified a polio-like syndrome in a cluster of children from California over a one-year period, according to a case report released. Polio is a contagious disease that sometimes caused paralysis. The United States experienced a polio epidemic in the 1950s, until a vaccine was...

A new study has looked at intensification of initial therapy for all children with Kawasaki Disease in order to prevent IVIG-resistance and associated coronary artery abnormalities by assessing the addition of the medication infliximab to current standard therapy. Kawasaki Disease is a severe...

Expertos de la Universidad de Alcalá han adaptado y validado al español el primer instrumento audiovisual de evaluación de la cognición social de trastornos como el autismo, la esquizofrenia o el trastorno bipolar. La cognición social es la capacidad humana para percibir, procesar e interpretar las señales sociales del...

A system for precisely delivering anti-inflammatory drugs to immune cells gone out of control, has been developed that spares the well-behaved counterpart cells in the body. The system uses nanoparticles made of tiny bits of protein designed to bind to unique receptors found only on neutrophils, a...