New way to lock up carbon dioxide

Scientists may have found a much more cost-effective way to extract the CO2 from exhaust gases. With Copenhagen just around the corner the attention of the world is firmly fixed on the question of cleaning up our emissions.  But efficient ways to selectively scrub CO2 from the waste gas streams...

Progress in cystic fibrosis

Researchers in California have discovered a way to partially repair damaged lung cells from patients with cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease that affects more than 70,000 people around the world. The results are published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology this week, led by Professor William...

Mobile phones off the hook as cause of brain cancer?

A large study of brain cancer cases has failed to find any increase in line with mobile phone use. Writing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Danish Cancer Society scientist Isabelle Deltour and her colleagues looked at 60,000 patients with brain cancers diagnosed between 1974 and 200...

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough

Researchers from Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, have made a step forward in understanding how aggression may be hardwired into the genes, at least for fruit flies. This is research from Professor David Anderson and his colleagues, writing in the journal Nature this week. They've fo...

Hitting Hepatitis C

Henrik Øren discusses a potential new drug to stop Hepatitis C in its tracks...