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New mammalian cell culture facility

November 25, 2013
News
A new mammalian cell culture cGMP manufacturing facility has been opened in Billingham, Teesside by Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies.The new facility – commissioned and built within 15 months – is the...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology
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Sticky sperm

November 20, 2013
News
Sticky sperm could hold the key to greater success for those undergoing IVF treatment say researchers from the University of Leeds.A £1.3m trial – the largest clinical trial to date...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology
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Sea louse with second body clock

November 11, 2013
News
The tiny speckled sea louse boasts not one but two body clocks _– one for night and day, and one for the ebb and flow of the tide.While the body...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Science Nobels awarded

November 6, 2013
News
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging from how cells organise their transport systems to complex chemical systems and, perhaps unsurprisingly, to the proposers...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology
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New technique to image cell interior

November 4, 2013
News
A new method of imaging cells is allowing scientists from Queen Mary University of London to see tiny structures inside the nucleus of the cell for the first time.Recent advances...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology
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Plant scientists pick wrong model

October 30, 2013
News
One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists because they have been looking at the wrong flower.Arabidopsis thaliana grows abundantly in cracks...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany
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Breaking the blood-brain barrier

October 28, 2013
News
Scientists from the University of Oxford have broken the blood-brain barrier, allowing cancer drugs to be delivered to life-threatening cancers which have spread to the vital organ.The study – in...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology
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Sorting the good from the bad bacteria

October 24, 2013
News
There are good bacteria and bad bacteria – some coexisting in the same species – and researchers at MIT have developed a new microfluidic technique which can quickly distinguish bacteria...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Virology
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‘Writing’ artificial membranes on graphene

October 23, 2013
News
Graphene has emerged as a versatile new surface on which to assemble model cell membranes mimicking those in the human body, with potential applications in sensors, disease detection and drug...
Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Materials Science
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Ribosome-building dance

October 22, 2013
News
An important step in building ribosomes is like a strictly choreographed dance say scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).In order to build ribosomes – the cell’s protein factories...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Proteomics & Genomics
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