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Fossil find could shed light on Neanderthal – human interbreeding

July 1, 2014
A collection of human fossils feared lost has been found and could shed light on whether Neanderthals and modern humans met and interbred. The fossils – from a collection once...

Antibiotic resistance chosen as greatest scientific problem

June 30, 2014
The British public have chosen antibiotic resistance as the most pressing scientific problem facing the world today. Scientists, institutions, organisations and individuals are now being invited to register their interest...

Bees under the spotlight

June 30, 2014
Recent research has uncovered a novel biopesticide which is safe for bees and doesn’t affect their food foraging ability, while another study has found that this activity might be aided...

Drug compound can reverse cardiomyopathy

June 26, 2014
A drug compound that could reverse hereditary disease arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) has been found by researchers in America. Zebrafish provided a screenable model of the disease with a cardiac myocyte-specific...

Bones from beer residue

June 25, 2014
Waste from beer brewing could be recycled for use in an unexpected application – as a biomaterial for bone regeneration. Researchers in Spain have developed a biocompatible material which can...

Onion-like vesicle for drug delivery

June 24, 2014
A drug delivery vesicle akin to an onion has been developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The team have discovered that a certain kind of dendrimer – a...

Caging water to study spin

June 23, 2014
A pioneering method of caging and cooling water molecules to study its nuclear spin conversion could enhance the diagnostic power of MRI scans. By trapping water molecules in spheres of...

Breakthrough against antibiotic resistance

June 23, 2014
A breakthrough in the race to solve antibiotic resistance has been made by a team from the University of East Anglia and Diamond Light Source. The powerful beams of light...

US researchers exposed to live anthrax

June 20, 2014
Failure to adhere to proper procedure means as many as 75 scientists in America may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Four new genes confirmed to increase familial breast cancer risk

June 20, 2014
Four new genes have been added to those already known to increase the risk of familial breast cancer. Although BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the most well-known inherited breast cancer genes,...

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