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Kidney age, not kidney disease, study

Since 2002, the different stages of CKD have been used by doctors to label reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) – the rate at which...

Nicotinic receptors and long-term memory could lead to more targeted and effective therapies for dementia

At present, the fundamental medicines for Alzheimer's ailment are drugs that expansion levels of acetylcholine in the cerebrum. The University of Bristol paper, distributed...

Orbital radiotherapy should not be used to treat thyroid eye disease

The principal NHS-drove clinical trial for thyroid eye sickness (TED) - likewise called Graves' orbitopathy (GO) – a distorting condition causing projecting eyes, twofold...

Study explains how organisms evolve to live at different temperatures

For the first time, new research from the University of Bristol along with the UK and the University of Waikato, New Zealand clarifies how...

Nanocrystalline graphite offers new class of harsh environment electronics

Small-scale and nanoelectromechanical transfers have adequately zero spillage current and can work at considerably higher temperatures and levels of radiation than strong state transistors....

It doesn’t pay to be just nice – you also need intelligence

The failure of individuals with lower intelligence to appropriately follow a consistent strategy and estimate the future consequences of their actions accounted for these...

Acoustic blockage detection system could prevent aircraft accidents

Pitots, which provide airspeed data, have played a role in several aircraft accidents, including the fatal Air France Flight 447 in 2009. New research...

New study demonstrates how bone size, shape and structure contributes towards arthritis and other musculoskeletal diseases

Musculoskeletal disorders are the main source of handicap in the UK's rising maturing populace, basically because of low back torment, breaks, and maladies, for...

Study will investigate what the best interests are of patients

The five-year think about, drove by Professor Richard Huxtable at the University of Bristol and a specialist in medicinal morals, will examine how the...

Since the last ice age, the Southern Hemisphere has reduced the climate variability, study found

The new University of Bristol proposes that generous lessening of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that secured a lot of present-day North America around 16,000...

Children’s drug-resistant bugs could stop common antibiotics working

Rising levels of medication protection in the microorganisms that reason youth contamination could render normal anti-infection agents ineffectual, an investigation cautions. E. coli is in...

Scientists revealed that Ray-finned fishes are natural born survivors

Today the Actinopterygii speak to around half of every single living vertebrate, with more than 32,000 species known. This wonderful current assorted variety has...

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