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ERC appoints nanoscientist as president

May 14, 2019
News
The European Commission has appointed nanoscientist Professor Mauro Ferrari as the European Research Council's new president. The Italian, who will take office on January 1 next year, is a prominent...
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Policy
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Radioactive carbon in deep ocean crustaceans

May 14, 2019
News
Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from nuclear bomb tests more than 50 years ago has entered the food chain at the deepest parts of the ocean. Chinese Academy of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Marine Biology
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Climate change boosts banana disease

May 10, 2019
News
Climate change has been found to raise the risk of a fungal disease in banana crops. The University of Exeter found that higher temperatures and an increase in atmospheric moisture...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Microbiology
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Gene therapy regenerates heart tissue

May 9, 2019
News
A coding gene has been shown to regenerate cells in pig hearts, which may help repair structural damage caused by heart attacks. Cardiologists at King’s College London delivered a small...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Proteomics & Genomics
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Medicines Discovery Catapult partners LifeArc for biomarker R&D

May 9, 2019
News
Medicines Discovery Catapult and LifeArc have announced partnerships to advance R&D in biomarker discovery and proteomics technology. The organisations will develop biomarkers that detect the safety of novel drug molecules...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Endlessly recyclable plastic

May 8, 2019
News
By separating plastic monomers from chemical additives, researchers may have created fully recyclable plastics. Molecular scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a new type of plastic: polydiketoenamine, or...
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry
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Sand ‘bubbles’ flow like liquid

May 3, 2019
News
Gravitational instabilities in granular particles of different densities could help us understand how structures such as mudslides and volcanoes formed. A Columbia University team layered two types of sand horizontally,...
Materials
Materials Science
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Antimicrobial microrobots remove biofilms

May 3, 2019
News
Magnetic microrobots could offer an alternative to antibacterial drugs as a way of destroying biofilms on hard-to-reach surfaces of the tooth. Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania partnered with dentists...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
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First US based human trial of CRISPR

May 1, 2019
News
The University of Pennsylvania has announced it has started the first formal US human trial using the technique. Two patients, one with multiple myeloma and one with sarcoma, both of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Proteomics & Genomics
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House of Lords calls for urgent forensics revamp

May 1, 2019
News
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has called for urgent reforms to forensic science in England and Wales, which it says is in a state of crisis and...
Chemistry
Forensics, Policy
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Research England backs Liverpool postdoc project

April 29, 2019
News
Research England has announced the first recipient of financing through its new RED Fund. The organization, part of UK Research and Innovation, will contribute £3.6 million to a University of...
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Medicines Discovery Catapult adds 22 CROs

April 26, 2019
News
Medicines Discovery Catapult has launched partnerships with 22 UK-based contract research organisations to boost life sciences R&D. The CROs will join Medicines Discovery Catapult’s Virtual R&D Discovery Services platform, which...
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