The UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has recommended that cannabis-derived medicinal products should move out of schedule 1 and into schedule 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, allowing GPs to prescribe licensed products to patients.
Resistant bacteria are rapidly outwitting antibiotics and making conventional strategies to treat infections redundant.
UK biotechnology company Albumedix has entered into a collaborative agreement with Novartis
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) are accumulating in the environment at a worrying rate.
Cosmetic companies seeking a more natural alternative to Botox to prevent skin wrinkling may look no further than red maple trees, better known for producing maple syrup.
The desert dwelling Namib beetle has devised an unusual way of obtaining water – by extracting it from the surrounding air.
Roughly 70% of all solid cancer tumours are treated with radiation therapy.
Lithium ion battery fires have resulted in burns and house fires, and even a plane crash.
Nearly five hundred years after she sank in the Solent doing battle with the French, the 16th century English warship the Mary Rose is coming under attack from a new enemy – harmful acids that are degrading her remaining timbers.
Researchers have detected high levels of sunscreen chemicals in the waters of Shenzhen, China.