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Giving life to the dead: Barts Pathology Museum’s Carla Valentine

December 13, 2013
Insight
Carla Valentine gives life to the dead – not only does she ensure the preservation of 5,000 specimens housed at Barts Pathology Museum, she blogs about their historyTell us about...
Life Sciences
Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Rudolf’s eye adaptation copes with extremes

December 11, 2013
News
Reindeers’ eyes have to function in extreme conditions – continuous summer daylight, followed by continuous winter darkness – and researchers have discovered they adapt their eye colour to deal with...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

November 29, 2013
News
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass extinction event nearly 252 million years ago.The cause of the massive extinction at...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Paleobiology
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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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