An estimated 4,837,000 asthmatics with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) could benefit substantially from antifungal treatment, say researchers from the University of Toronto an... Read more
A new transistor capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening has been developed by graphene researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Notting... Read more
Scientists at The University of Manchester have made a surprising finding after studying how tadpoles re-grow their tails which could have big implications for research into human healing an... Read more
The advance could lead to more innovative ways of sourcing fuel from natural resources Writing in PNAS, the researchers have shown that the emerging field of synthetic biology can be used to... Read more
“New areas of research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.” Desktop 3-D printers can already pump out a toy trinket, gear set or even parts to make another printer. Medical rese... Read more
Has the potential to revolutionise diverse applications from smartphones and ultrafast broadband to anticancer drugs and computer chips Wonder material graphene could not only dominate the e... Read more
A ‘magic carpet’ which can immediately detect when someone has fallen and can help to predict mobility problems has been demonstrated by University of Manchester scientists. Plastic optical... Read more
Minute whiskers of nanoscale dimensions taken from sea creatures could hold the key to creating working human muscle tissue, University of Manchester researchers have discovered. Scientists... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A radical new heating system where homes would be heated by district centres rather than in individual households could dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions. In a se... Read more