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Burrito birthday!

October 3, 2011
Insight
As you will no doubt have noticed it is the 40th anniversary of Laboratory News, and this issue is something of a ‘birthday party’ issue.The Editor has been rattling his...
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UARS returns home

September 29, 2011
News
NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) satellite re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and crash-landed last week – trouble was nobody knew where.The precise re-entry time and location of the debris...
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Online gamers solve enzyme riddle

September 29, 2011
News
Puzzled scientists have turned to online gamers to solve the structure on a retrovirus enzyme, their discovery may lead to new drugs designed to treat AIDS.Scientists had failed to piece...
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Electron ping-pong

September 29, 2011
News
Scientists have been playing ping-pong with electrons in new research which reveals an important technique for transferring quantum information.Researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have moved...
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Improving human health in space

September 29, 2011
Feature
New therapeutic approaches are required to battle deteriorating health and mission performance during spaceflight. Using worms as model organisms, RNA interference which is used as a method to silence gene...
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Science and speed

September 28, 2011
News
A Dutch company has moved out of their science comfort zone to create a motorcycle racing team which will use their monitoring equipment to improve racing performance.
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Our chemical romance – how chemistry touches our lives

September 27, 2011
Feature
The International Year of Chemistry (IYC 2011) is an entire year devoted to the celebration of chemistry. Under the unifying theme “Chemistry – our life, our future,” IYC 2011 reaches...
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Going social

September 26, 2011
Insight
After the Arab spring, and the recent English riots it is now clear to anyone who doubted it that web based social networking is having an enormous impact on the...
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Pathogenic microbes earn Dr Edward Feil a scientific Medal

September 26, 2011
Insight
How do new pathogenic microbial strains evolve and spread? It is a question that occupies Dr Edward Feil, and it has just won him a Scientific Medal.Dr Edward Feil spends...
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The butterfly effect

September 26, 2011
Insight
What do the English riots and the Sulzberger ice shelf in Antarctica have in common?
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