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£24m from NERC

January 11, 2019
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Around £24 million in funding has been allocated under the fourth round of National Environment Research Council highlight topics. The funding will be split between 14 research projects covering climate...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Cobra Biologics receives £1.5 million for AAV manufacturing

January 10, 2019
News
Cobra Biologics, Pall, and Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult have received £1.5 million from Innovate UK to investigate continuous manufacturing of adeno-associated virus for gene therapies.Pall Corporation, a supplier of...
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European wheat unprepared for climate change

January 10, 2019
News
Current breeding programmes and cultivar selection practices of European wheat crops are unprepared for increasingly variable weather conditions, according to new research.Based on thousands of observations of wheat cultivars in...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Swirling bacterium

January 9, 2019
News
Individual bacteria and biofilms can generate currents strong enough to draw distant nutrients, according to a Stanford University team. As a single bacterium swims forward, it creates a tiny current...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
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Melting ice sheets pump out methane

January 9, 2019
News
The emission of tons of methane from the Greenland Ice Sheet is evidence of a widespread subglacial microbial system, according to an international research team.Using novel sensors, researchers led by...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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3D-printed biosensors for diabetes patients

January 4, 2019
News
3D-printed biosensors in wearable monitors have picked up glucose signals more effectively than traditionally produced electrodes.  Researchers at Washington State University’s faculty in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering used...
Life Sciences
Biotechnology
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Brain pacemaker controls optogenetics

January 3, 2019
News
A miniature wireless implant could allow more efficient optogenetics in the human brain, according to a University of Arizona study.The “brain pacemaker” is implanted under the scalp by way of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics
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Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products

January 3, 2019
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A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly chemical products.
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Chemical Engineering
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Reindeer maintain circadian rhythm in dark months

December 26, 2018
News
Reindeer are able to maintain a 24-hour body clock during days of sustained light or darkness, according to a new research paper.An international collaboration of scientists from the James Hutton...
Life Sciences
Zoology
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Self-lighting Christmas trees with synthetic DNA

December 24, 2018
News
 CRISPR gene editing could be used to develop self-lighting Christmas trees, according to University of Warwick scientists.Engineers and biologists the university’s Interactive Synthetic Biology Centre used virtual reality to demonstrate...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
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Liquid crystal elastomer morphs on-demand

December 21, 2018
News
Rice University researchers have developed a liquid crystal elastomer that morphs between two different shapes.Shapes programmed into the shape-shifting polymer appear in ambient conditions and melt away with the application...
Materials
Materials Science
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Wasp venom repurposed as antibiotic drug

December 20, 2018
News
Variants of a peptide normally found in wasp venom could have applications as an antibiotic drug for humans.   Engineers from MIT studied antimicrobial properties of a toxin normally found in a...
Life Sciences
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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