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Reduced emissions from lab-grown meat

August 5, 2011
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If you were told cultured meat – meat grown in the laboratory – could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 96%, would you eat it?
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Reducing weeds with ground beetles

August 4, 2011
News
Ground beetles could play an important role in ensuring future food security by munching on weed seeds that would otherwise grow to compete with food crops.
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Sunburn understood

August 4, 2011
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A single electron could be the key to future drugs that repair sunburn say researchers who have witnessed the mechanism by which an enzyme repairs sun-damaged DNA.
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Why plant ‘clones’ aren’t clones

August 4, 2011
News
Plant clones are not often identical to the donor plant – a fact that has puzzled researchers until now.
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Waste not, want not

August 4, 2011
Feature
The government's aspiration for a 'zero waste economy' places increased pressure on waste producers and the UK's £9bn waste management industry. Ian Rippin discusses the regulatory drivers and how laboratory...
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Potato genome sequenced

August 3, 2011
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With the global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, an international consortium have sequenced the genome of the potato, which could lead to improved breeding and ensure food...
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Looking to the left

August 2, 2011
Feature
Albert Einstein, John Dillinger and Laboratory News staff writer Kerry Taylor-Smith – an unusual bunch, but what do they have in common? They're all left-handed. Here we look at the...
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Personalising radiotherapy

August 2, 2011
Feature
Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden Hospital pioneered intensity-modulated radiotherapy and in 2007 conducted the first clinical trial of IMRT in breast cancer. Two new...
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Improving cancer care

August 1, 2011
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Molecular diagnostics testing has the ability to predict in advance how patients will respond to a given treatment, and now the UK could potentially become the world leader in personalised...
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HIV weakness revealed

August 1, 2011
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Developing a vaccine against HIV has proven difficult because the virus is capable of rapidly mutating. However, researchers in America think they’ve found a weakness which undermines the virus’ fitness.
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