Topic: United Kingdom
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said Monday it would promote use of new medicines and use a 180 million pounds ($280 million) fund to bring modern technologies to market under a package of reforms designed to attract investment from big pharmaceuticals companies.Prime Minister ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will promote use of new medicines and has earmarked 180 million pounds ($280 million) to bring modern technologies to market under a package of reforms designed to make the country more attractive to big pharmaceuticals companies.Prime Minister David ...
Does Facebook alter the brain? That's the question which flows from an unusual investigation into the online social network used by 800 million people.Volunteers placed in a 3-D scanner had bigger, denser structures in three areas of the brain if they had ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have mapped out the entire genetic map of the Black Death, a 14th century bubonic plague that killed 50 million Europeans in one of the most devastating epidemics in history.The work, which involved extracting and purifying DNA from ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hate mornings, especially on Mondays? You may be surprised to know that much of the world doesn't share that grumpy feeling.Twitter shows people are more cheerful in the morning, get gloomier as the day wears on and rebound in ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Fluctuating levels of the brain chemical serotonin, often brought on when someone hasn't eaten or is stressed, affect brain regions that enable people to regulate anger, scientists said on Thursday.In a study using healthy volunteers, researchers from Britain's Cambridge ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Fluctuating levels of the brain chemical serotonin, often brought on when someone hasn't eaten or is stressed, affect brain regions that enable people to regulate anger, scientists said Thursday.In a study using healthy volunteers, researchers from Britain's Cambridge University ...
A rattling good laugh with friends will help you deal with pain thanks to opiate-like chemicals that flood the brain, according to a British study released on Wednesday.Researchers carried out lab experiments in which volunteers watched either comedy clips from "Mr Bean" ...
LONDON (Reuters) - People with extra copies of certain genes are much more likely to be very skinny, scientists said Wednesday in the first finding of a genetic cause for extreme thinness.In a study in the journal Nature, researchers from Britain's Imperial ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because ...
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