Gene therapy holds hope for blindness

This week researchers have taken a step closer to using gene therapy for treating a type of inherited blindness. Artur Cideciyan from the University of Pennsylvania led a team who have been looking at therapies that aim to treat a rare form of blindness called Leber congenital amaurosis or LCA. St...

Electricity gets More Distance for your Diesel

Subjecting your diesel engine to a high voltage could improve the efficiency by 20% - which could save a lot of money on the forecourt! Internal combustion engines are becoming more efficient with each generation of cars, but we’re still a long way off perfection.  Now, researchers at Temple U...

Giant tortoises not gone yet

This week saw the return of Galapagos Day, an annual event held by the Galapagos Conservation Trust and this year there was some good news: a species of giant tortoise that was thought to have gone extinct over a hundred years ago may in fact not be lost forever. A team of scientists from Yale Univ...

Bee counted

Scientists have shown that bees can count up to 4! Marie Dacke and Mandyam Srinivasan who carried out the work at the Australian National University in Canberra have published a paper in Animal Cognition describing a series of experiments to prove that the humble honeybee is numerically more sophis...

From Breastmilk to Baby's Blood

We know that antibodies must pass from breastmilk to baby's blood, but only now have scientists watched one in the process, using a gold nanoparticle to shine a light on how it works...