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Industrial biotech gains £20 million

April 20, 2015
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The winners of an innovative UK biotechnology competition will share £20 million for the development of 23 projects ranging from making biofuel from household waste to using bacteria to for...
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The oldest unevolved organism

April 20, 2015
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Scientists have discovered a deep-sea microorganism that shows no evidence of evolution in the last 2 billion years. A research team at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA)...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Marine Biology, Oceanography, Paleobiology
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Funding for chemical toxicity tool which enhances 3Rs

April 17, 2015
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The ChemInteract consortium has been awarded funding to develop an innovative tool for assessing the potentially harmful effects of chemicals that are used in the environment and in consumer products....
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Podiatry experts hit high demand

April 17, 2015
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The demand for forensic podiatry expertise has increased significantly since the 1990s.  The University of Huddersfield’s Professor Wesley Vernon – one of the world’s leading forensic podiatrists – is now...
Chemistry
Forensics
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Double dome points to largest asteroid impact

April 16, 2015
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The world’s largest asteroid impact zone – invisible at the earth’s surface – has been found in central Australia. By studying drill cores, geophysicists at the Australian National University (ANU)...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology, Geophysics
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Mini-lungs to help the study of cystic fibrosis

April 14, 2015
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By using stem cells, scientists have created what they refer to as mini-lungs to aid cystic fibrosis studies. Scientists at the University of Cambridge used stem cells derived from the...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology
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£2 million for genome analysis development

April 13, 2015
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An Oxford base genome analytics company – Genomics Limited – has been awarded £2 million after winning a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition. The competition – Enabling Technologies for...
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A peak below the surface…

April 13, 2015
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Scientists have designed a technique for recovering destroyed serial numbers on metal objects. A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado used a scanning electron...
Chemistry
Forensics
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Underground ocean found on Jupiter’s largest moon

April 10, 2015
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Scientists have used a new approach to find evidence for a subsurface saltwater ocean on Jupiter's largest moon.By using the NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers at University of Cologne in...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Training the next generation of archaeogeneticists

April 9, 2015
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A new research centre will be used to train the next generation of specialists in the field of archaeogenetics.The Centre for Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Huddersfield will be...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Proteomics & Genomics
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New chameleon-like material

April 8, 2015
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Engineers have created a chameleon-like material that can change colour on demand.By using flexible, high-contrast metastructure, scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have created an incredibly thin membrane...
Materials
Materials Science
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Pain intensity signals in the brain identified

April 7, 2015
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A new technique has been developed to detect the area of the brain involved in the process of pain intensity detection.Neurologists at the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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