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Nanotech antimicrobial packaging is being developed to extend the shelf life and safety of foods and beverages. However researchers have shown that potentially harmful materials, such as silver nanoparticles embedded in an antimicrobial plastic, can leave the material and form nanoparticles in foods and beverages, particularly in sweet and sugary ones.

A brain-related visual impairment, which until recently was thought to be rare, may affect one in every 30 children according to new research.

Modern immunotherapeutic drugs support a natural mechanism of the immune system to inhibit the growth of cancerous cells. They associate with a specific receptor found on the immune cells and prevent it from being switched off by the cancer cells.

When most people hear “food contamination,” they think of bacteria present on unwashed fruits or vegetables, or undercooked meat. However, there are other ways for harmful contaminants to be present in food products.

A class of drugs known as PARP-inhibitors used to treat hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, may not work the way we thought they did, according to new research published in Nature Communications.

Since element 99 - einsteinium - was discovered in 1952 from the debris of the first hydrogen bomb, scientists have performed few experiments with it because it is so hard to create and is exceptionally radioactive. Now, chemists report the first study characterizing some of its properties, opening the door to a better understanding of the remaining transuranic elements of the actinide series.

Current silicon-based computing technology is very energy-inefficient and finding ways to decarbonise technology is an obvious target for energy savings. A new discovery involving rust suggests that the future of green computing may, in fact, be brown.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have published in Preprints with The Lancet an analysis of further data from the ongoing trials of the vaccine. In this, they reveal that the vaccine efficacy is higher at longer prime-boost intervals, and that a single dose of the vaccine is 76% effective from 22- to up to 90-days post vaccination.

A team of scientists in Japan has developed a novel method to induce stem cell generation from the blood samples of dogs. Through this technique, the scientists hope to advance regenerative therapies in veterinary medicine.

A new British Heart Foundation funded study has found that the release of stored iron in heart cells may contribute to heart failure and could lead to the development of new drugs for the disease.