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Buzz about town

April 29, 2011
What’s all the buzz about honeybees? These precious pollinators of fruits and vegetables are disappearing and threatening our food supply. Despite the awareness of the problem and the seriousness of...

Pushing it to the limit

April 28, 2011
Laboratory News learns of a new diagnostic tool that provides instant analysis of biomarkers for healthcare and sports medicine all in the palm of your hand

Tackling the root of the disease

April 28, 2011
Stem cells are a hot topic in cancer research, and with the launch of a specialised consortium of world-leading scientists to push the frontiers of this research, it looks set...

Cancer drug trial begins in Oxford

April 28, 2011
An international trial of a novel drug to treat lung cancer patients who have stopped responding to initial chemotherapy treatment is to begin in Oxford

Breast cancer tissue bank heads to Nottingham

April 28, 2011
A new tissue bank that will help fast-track research from bench to bedside is being launched at the University of Nottingham

Ageing – it’s down to steroids

April 27, 2011
Ageing is all down to the decrease in a steroid, and an international team of researchers have discovered eight genes which control its concentration.

Brain mapping – an online resource

April 27, 2011
There is a 94% similarity between human brains, and at least 82% of all human genes are expressed in the brain according to the Allen Human Brain Atlas.

Very vanilla

April 27, 2011
Vanilla is the world’s second most popular flavour but the plant’s temperamental life cycle and propagation means it struggles to keeps up with demand – Malaysian scientists hope to give...

Money money money

April 26, 2011
Money - goes the saying - makes the world go round. Well, much as anyone with even a passing acquaintance with gravity and Newton’s famous laws may take umbrage at...

The puzzle of excess calcium

April 26, 2011
Too much calcium in the heart can cause sudden cardiac arrest in heart failure patients but scientists have been puzzled by how and why this happened – until now

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