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Brain mechanism for durable memories revealed

December 10, 2015
News
Rehearsing information immediately after being given it may be all you need to make it a permanent memory, scientists from the University of Sussex suggest.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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Meat-cooking compounds increase the risk of kidney cancer

December 7, 2015
News
Following a recent report by WHO suggesting the consumption of red and processed meat can increase the risk of colorectal cancer, new work has found that compounds produced when cooking...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Food & Beverage, Oncology
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Chicken study reveals speedy and dynamic evolution

December 7, 2015
News
Mutations in chicken genomes suggest that evolution rates could occur 15 times faster than previously thought.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology
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Life hits 4.1 billion years

December 3, 2015
News
New evidence suggests that life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology, Paleobiology
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Umbilical stem cells help retinal neurons grow

December 2, 2015
News
Cells found in human umbilical cord tissue could be used in the future for the treatment of degenerative eye diseases.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Neuroscience
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Protein found to affect HA efficacy

December 1, 2015
News
Hyaluronic acid (HA), used to treat osteoarthritis, could be modified to become even more useful for patients after a protein was discovered that has a huge influence on its success...
Life Sciences
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Immunology, Physiology, Proteomics & Genomics
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2016 Breakthrough Prizes announced

December 1, 2015
News
The winners of the 2016 Breakthrough Prizes – worth $22 million in total (£15 million) – in life sciences, fundamental physics and maths have been announced at a live ceremony...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Physics
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Genetic differences in microbes and wine variation linked

November 25, 2015
News
The distinctive variations in taste and odour between wines from different regions are linked to tiny genetic differences in microbe species, new study finds.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Food & Beverage, Microbiology, Proteomics & Genomics
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It simply isn’t cricket

November 17, 2015
Feature
It is well-established that parasites can affect the behaviour of their hosts, but can a parasitical worm really get a cricket to shut-up? Dr Megan Wise de Valdez thinks so,...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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New test can detect any virus

November 12, 2015
News
Scientists have designed a test that can detect not only any known virus type and subtype but also virus outbreaks.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Medical Diagnostics, Virology
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