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New company seeks collaboration

April 26, 2011
Molecular diagnostic company, Abcodia, has been granted rights to commercialise intellectual property from one of the UK’s largest biobanks and is seeking new collaborative partners.

Small, but perfectly formed

April 26, 2011
Primary microcephaly (MCPH) is an autosomal recessive inherited disease characterised by a small, but architecturally normal brain. Although the disease results in mild to moderate, non-progressive mental retardation, development is...

Good versus bad and how the brain remembers

April 24, 2011
The brain’s reward centre is also geared towards bad behaviour, evoking production of neurotransmitters say scientists who have also shown how the brain remembers events.

Orchid aids pollination with roadkill

April 21, 2011
Roadkill or orchid – they both smell the same to flesh flies and a South African orchid which mimics the smell of rotting flesh used this to lure flies into...

Under the spotlight; medical innovation – an investor’s perspective

April 21, 2011
SPARK Ventures tell us what you need to know to ensure you get funding from venture capitalists

Nano-vaccines for HIV and malaria

April 20, 2011
Researchers at MIT have discovered packing vaccines into concentric fatty spheres could be key to designing safe vaccines for diseases like HIV and malaria

The eyes have it

April 20, 2011
Eye movements have been used to gain better understanding about the functioning of the brain and now clinicians have gathered enough sophisticated information to consider eye movements as early-stage biomarkers...

Are young people really turned off by science?

April 19, 2011
Is science becoming cool again, or are the next generation still turned off by science?

Keeping up with genomics

April 19, 2011
It is among one of the most ambitious scientific programmes ever undertaken - the human genome project has started to revolutionise the way we think about human biology and medicine....

Mutated microRNA causes deafness

April 18, 2011
A mutated form of microRNA is responsible for deafness in mice because it prevents the development of sensory cells vital to hearing, a finding which may have important implications for...

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