Sunday 24 August 2008

Arctic Monkeys to record with Queens Of The Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme has told NME.COM that he is determine to enter the studio with Arctic Monkeys in the USA next calendar month to produce new songs for them.

Homme explained that the Sheffield band will fly to Joshua Tree, California adjacent month to record new tracks.


He said that it had not still been determined whether the songs would be released as an album or a single, as they were just experimenting at this early stage.


"I think it's expiration to shape out majuscule," Homme told NME.COM. "They want to submerge themselves in a place that's the opposite of where they're from and what they're used to.


"I reckon we're just going to start by doing a couple of tracks. No pressure. The goal is to make up something that they dig out so much that everyone else john too."


For more on the Arctic Monkeys and Queens Of The Stone Age collaboration see NME shortly.



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Wednesday 6 August 2008

Trial Into The Link Between Prenatal Vitamin D Levels And Schizophrenia Prevalence

�Researchers from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute are set to deport a world-first trial into the connexion between antepartum vitamin D levels and schizophrenia prevalence.




Funded by the NHMRC and lED by QBI's Dr Darryl Eyles, a team of four researchers will study blood floater taken from newborn babies who hold gone on to develop schizophrenia in early maturity.




"Undeniably, dispirited maternal vitamin D affects the way the brain develops," Dr Eyles aforesaid.




"Over the past four years we've been able to point that low vitamin D intake in animals during pregnancy results in issue with mind abnormalities alike to those seen in patients with schizophrenia."




The next step of the research process involves testing the theory on human samples.




By analysing the blood spots of newborns the team will suffer a good indication of the baby's vitamin D status at the time of nativity.





This type of study is possible thanks to a biobank located at the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen where the Danish government have not only stored newborn blood spots since 1981, but kept ongoing medical records which come with each sampling.




"This is a straight test of the