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New clues to cancer communication

April 27, 2012
There is growing interest in the idea that the body’s immune system might be trained to fight cancer, and new research suggests intercepting communication signals sent around the body by...

Have you considered rental?

April 26, 2012
Laboratory News takes a look at the benefits of renting rather than purchasing equipment for modern research operationLaboratory automation is now well established as a successful and cost effective method...

Sanofi to close R&D and drug manufacturing site

April 25, 2012
Sanofi are to close their drug manufacturing site in Newcastle, and the Genzyme R&D site in Cambridge, resulting in the loss of over 500 jobs.The Fawdon site in Newcastle will...

Observing embryonic development

April 25, 2012
Embryonic development that was previously unobservable has now become observable thanks to Cambridge researchers who have established a new method to visualise embryos ex utero.During the first four days of...

Advances in blood clot switch understanding

April 25, 2012
Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding how a biochemical switch linked to blood-clotting, strokes and heart disease is switched on.Researchers led by the University of Leicester – and...

What makes E. coli 0104 so deadly?

April 24, 2012
In May last year a major outbreak of foodbourne illness was caused by E.coli. Genomic and mass spec technologies could combine to detect such outbreaks in the future. Here the...

Marine worm with a toxic diet

April 23, 2012
Faced with a scarce food supply in the sandy sediments in which it lives, a small marine worm survives on a highly poisonous menu of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide.The...

Glowing nanotubes to aid therapeutics

April 23, 2012
Glowing carbon nanotubes could be the key to delivering drugs to cancer cells or modified DNA molecules for gene therapy say researchers in Bath. Researchers from the Department of Chemistry...

Will colouring fear cross the Atlantic?

April 23, 2012
Coca-Cola and Pepsi have altered the way the caramel colour so distinctive of their drinks is produced, but are only changing the process in America – should we be worried...

Click chemistry to aid biotechnology research

April 20, 2012
A new technique to click together DNA and RNA segments has won researchers from Southampton and Oxford a £4 million grant from the BBSRC.Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and...

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