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GSMA announces mobile ecosystem partnership to provide mHealth services to women, children

The GSMA today announced that its Mobile for Development mHealth programme has launched a new cross-ecosystem partnership designed to provide a range of mHealth services to women and children, with a particular focus on nutrition, across Sub-Saharan Africa.

30 Jun 2014

UK's TSB provides £347,000 for project to optimise gene library assembly technology

Today, Monday 30th June, 2014, Isogenica, Cambridge UK and Imperial College London secure funding from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), the UK's innovation agency, for a £347,000 project to optimise a gene library assembly technology for potential use in synthetic biology.

30 Jun 2014

Gene study reveals the root of language development in humans

The evolution of language in humans continues to perplex scientists and linguists who study how humans learn to communicate.

28 Jun 2014

Sociologists to discuss economic inequality at ASA's Annual Meeting in San Francisco

More than 5,000 sociologists will convene in San Francisco this August to explore ideas and scientific research relating to economic inequality and many other topics, as part of the American Sociological Association's 109th Annual Meeting. This year's theme, "Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Inequality on Families and Individuals," draws attention to the many ways in which inequality reverberates throughout American society and the world.

27 Jun 2014

Personalized antibiotic therapy can help fight antibiotic-resistant infections

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned last fall that the U.S. faces "potentially catastrophic consequences" if it doesn't act quickly to combat the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant infections, which kill about 23,000 Americans a year.

27 Jun 2014

Evolution News and Research

GSMA announces mobile ecosystem partnership to provide mHealth services to women, children

UK's TSB provides £347,000 for project to optimise gene library assembly technology

Gene study reveals the root of language development in humans

Sociologists to discuss economic inequality at ASA's Annual Meeting in San Francisco

Personalized antibiotic therapy can help fight antibiotic-resistant infections

Interactions with other infections can trigger herpes virus to reactivate, shows research

Applying math to study cell migration and dynamics of organisms

New wound treatment with material leads to faster healing, prevents harmful bacteria from sticking

Women who give birth later in life tend to live longer

Researchers discover primordial cancer in primitive and evolutionary old animals

Study: Cohesin mutations are common in melanoma and bladder cancer

Ligand Pharmaceuticals, TG Therapeutics sign global license agreement for IRAK-4 inhibitors

SCLC tumours replicated in mice from patients' CTCs

Researchers adapt mathematical tool to help control malaria and other infectious diseases

Peakdale Molecular reports significant growth in demand for its medicinal chemistry services

Fragile Y hypothesis explains the factors behind chromosome loss

Entomologists develop chromosome map to find ways to prevent dengue fever, yellow fever

Special issue explores trends related to unmet need for contraception

A new approach to treating whipworm infections

Genomic study reveals striking contrasts that may aid disease prevention

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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