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Safe soil – identifying PAHs

March 10, 2011
Suli Zhao and Andy Zhai take us through some of the analytical techniques used for identifying polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil samples

Learning increased with brain stimulation

March 9, 2011
Cerebral stimulation may be used to treat functional disorders of the brain thanks to research which shows stimulating parts of the brain can help rats learn more easily.

Nanotech – a bead of hope for big pharma?

March 8, 2011
One of the greatest challenges for those working in the research and development of pharmaceutical products is the step from laboratory to full-scale production. Nanotechnology has provided a real step...

p63 – the cause of female infertility

March 7, 2011
Cancer treatment can often leave women infertile and researchers in Germany believe they have begun to unveil the mechanism just why this happens

Blue cheeses under the microscope

March 7, 2011
Blue cheeses are going under the microscope as scientists in the East Midlands try to figure out what gives the dairy delights their distinctive taste, texture and smell.

Goldilocks explains lack of dino tracks

March 4, 2011
The Goldilocks Effect – where all conditions have to be ‘just right’ – might explain why dinosaur tracks have been preserved in some areas and not in others.

Film analysis: No stone unturned

March 3, 2011
Jo Smewing explores new methods to help pharmaceutical manufacturers quantify and analyse the performance characteristics of pharmaceutical film applications

Hope for rare chameleon

March 3, 2011
A new population of a critically endangered Madagascan chameleon has been found on the island just three days after an international conference assessing their conservation status.

Protein collisions derail DNA replication

March 3, 2011
DNA replication is riskier than originally thought say researchers at the University of Nottingham who liken DNA to a bi-directional rail track with two types of train.

Earth’s core rotates slower than thought

March 3, 2011
The Earth’s core is moving at one degree every million years, not one degree each year as scientists previously believed suggests new research.

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