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Flexible metrology: from memory to medicine

September 22, 2009
Quality control of surface texture is possible on an atomic scale

Space technology transfer handled by SFTC

September 21, 2009
STFC Innovations - the technology transfer office of the Science & Technology Facilities Council - has been selected to lead the European Space Agency’s tech transfer programme in the UK.

A light solution to amorous birds

September 18, 2009
Oxford University researchers have discovered how birds sense the lengthening days of early Spring and time when they breed, solving a 70-year mystery.

X marks the spot

September 17, 2009
Mental retardation has been linked to mutations on the X-chromosome – however the genes on this chromosome are not fully understood, making screening a real challenge

Mutated mitochondria promote premature ageing

September 16, 2009
Researchers have shown how mitochondria - popularly known as the cells' power plants - can be the seat of early ageing.

Bringing nanotech to the fore

September 15, 2009
The NanoProfessor NanoScience Education Program was born in recognition of the need of a curriculum in colleges and universities to provide people trained in the science of nanotechnology to work...

Researchers FRET over vesicle formation

September 14, 2009
New insights into vesicle formation could open up prospects for the research of neurological and infectious diseases according to a group of Norwegian researchers.

Replica brain possible – but funding stands in way

September 11, 2009
Creating a replication of the human brain is a feasible short term goal according to neuroscientist Professor Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland. He believes that financial...

Parasitic sleight of hand key to Leishmaniasis

September 11, 2009
New research, led by Imperial College London, suggests the parasites that cause the tropical disease Leishmaniasis convince the immune system to help them rather than kill them.

You spin me white round

September 11, 2009
The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray telescope has uncovered the fastest rotating white dwarf ever observed in the Universe.

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