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(University of Wisconsin-Madison) University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of silicon that could lay the foundation for faster flexible electronics.

(Queen's University Belfast) People who have suffered a stroke or who have been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, could benefit from new research at Queen's University Belfast.

Babies delivered by Caesarean section have a 20 per cent higher risk than normal deliveries of developing the most common type of diabetes in childhood, according to a study led by Queen's University Belfast.

(Queen's University) A "basic science" breakthrough by Queen's University researchers into regulating a single enzyme may lead to new drug therapies that will help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

(University of Chicago) Research into single-celled, aquatic algae called dinoflagellates is showing that these and related organisms may have evolved more than one way to tightly back their DNA into chromsomes.

Even so, the evolution of chromosomes in dinoflagellates, humans and other mammals seem to share a common biochemical basis.

(Queen's University Belfast) A Queen's University Belfast scientist, whose research is now used worldwide in blood analyzing equipment, has made another important discovery.Recently announced as the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Sensors Award for 2008, Professor A.

Prasanna de Silva, has created "intelligent" molecules.

(University of Washington) Biofuels based on renewable sources are increasingly popular as a way to reduce fossil fuel dependence and limit greenhouse gas emissions, but new research shows that some of the most popular current biofuel stocks might have exactly the opposite impacts than intended.

A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has won the Young Astronomer Award 2008 from the Astronomical Society of Japan.