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Nano-Velcro for CTCs

April 4, 2011
News
A Velcro-like nanoscale device capable of capturing marauding tumour cells from metastatic cancers has been developed by researchers at UCLA.
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Nature’s nanospring

April 1, 2011
News
International researchers have unravelled elastin – a protein which allows our lungs to expand and contract as we breathe and our arteries to dilate and constrict with our heart beat.
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Remedies from spacebound bacteria

March 30, 2011
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Bacteria shot into space in 2006 might provide inspiration for novel remedies on Earth say NASA scientists.
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Beating the blood-brain barrier

March 30, 2011
News
The impermeable blood-brain barrier makes it impossible to deliver drugs to fight neurodegenerative diseases to the brain, but researchers have discovered a way through the wall – exosomes.
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Multiple myeloma genome visualised

March 30, 2011
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The genetic blueprint of multiple myeloma has yielded new and unexpected insights into how this form of blood cancer develops and could influence the direction of research into the disease.
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RNA and the frontier of personalised medicine

March 29, 2011
Feature
Europe must invest in RNA research to unlock the potential of personalised medicine says Professor Jörg Vogel
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Giant rabbit lost its hop

March 29, 2011
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A giant rabbit that lost its ability to hop lived on the island of Minorca millions of years ago say palaeontologists, who have named the beast Nuralagus rex or Minorcan...
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From sea squirt to human tissue

March 28, 2011
News
Once again, Nature has proved a great source of inspiration – this time it’s the sea squirt, whose cellulose can influence the behaviour of skeletal muscle cells in the lab
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Shakespear in space

March 26, 2011
Insight
As the US Space Shuttle programme draws to a close and NASA squabbles with Obama over how best to replace it - could America’s reign of supremacy in space be...
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Dinosaur detective Phil Manning

March 26, 2011
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Imagine getting paid to dig up dinosaurs and make a TV show about it – sounds like fun! We’re so jealous of the career this month’s Big Ask has chosenPalaeontologist...
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