Science news articles about 'heriot watt university'

  • Musical tastes in tune with who you are

    A new study at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University links peoples' personalities and their choice of music.
  • Regular sprint boosts metabolism

    ... Timmons worked with a team of researchers from Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland, to investigate the effect of 'high-intensity interval training' (HIT ...
  • Laser-sculpted optical devices for future giant telescopes

    ... Ajoy Kar and Robert Thomson of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Photonics devices can be made ... ," explains Thomson—a photonics researcher at Heriot-Watt University. In less than a picosecond, these pulses can deliver ...
  • Marine microbes creating green waves in industry

    ... the manufacture of other products such as agrochemicals. Researchers at Heriot-Watt University and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML ... of the process. Professor Mark Keane, from Heriot-Watt University, said: "Our approach is to look for microbes which can promote ...
  • Making more efficient fuel cells

    ... at the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, today (7 September). The researchers isolated a strain of Geobacter sulfurreducens ...
  • Building better bone replacements with bacteria

    ... (7-10 September) presented work to the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh ...
  • Building better bone replacements with bacteria

    ... to the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Using Serratia bacteria, the research showed that the bacterial cells stuck tightly ...
  • How manuka honey helps fight infection

    ... ), at the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was grown in the laboratory and treated ...
  • Making bacteria make useful proteins

    ... . Dr John Smit presented the findings at the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, today ...
  • Designing probiotics that ambush gut pathogens

    ... . At the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, today (8 September), Professor James Paton and colleagues from the University ...
  • Using insects to test for drug safety

    ... at the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, today (8 September). Neutrophils, which are a type of white blood cell ...
  • Mounting a multi-layered attack on fungal infections

    ... at the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, today (8 September), Professor Gow explained that the yeast's cell ...
  • Using microbes for the quick clean up of dirty oil

    ... to the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, described how, by using mixed consortia of bacteria, they have achieved complete degradation of specific ...
  • Disease-causing Escherichia coli: 'I will survive'

    ... . At the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, today (9 September) they reported that they had found that the pathogenic strains could survive in different ...
  • Taking the stress off yeast produces better wine

    ... at the Society for General Microbiology meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, today (9 September), Dr Aranda described the stresses that wine ...

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