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Award for Immunocore

November 20, 2013
News
Oxford-based Immunocore has won the Best Biotech Dealmaker Award of 2013 at the OBN (Oxfordshire Bioscience Network) annual awards. The award recognises Immunocore’s achievement in closing two major partnerships with Genentech...
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Fluid frenzy at MIT

November 13, 2013
News
In separate studies, two groups of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been probing the properties of fluid droplets.Firstly, researchers unexpectedly discovered water droplets that form on a superhydrophobic...
Physics & Engineering
Physics
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Sea louse with second body clock

November 11, 2013
News
The tiny speckled sea louse boasts not one but two body clocks _– one for night and day, and one for the ebb and flow of the tide.While the body...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Science Nobels awarded

November 6, 2013
News
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging from how cells organise their transport systems to complex chemical systems and, perhaps unsurprisingly, to the proposers...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology
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New technique to image cell interior

November 4, 2013
News
A new method of imaging cells is allowing scientists from Queen Mary University of London to see tiny structures inside the nucleus of the cell for the first time.Recent advances...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology
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Ultra-compact dwarf galaxy discovered

November 1, 2013
News
An ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a density of stars 15,000 times greater than the Milky Way has been discovered by astronomers from Michigan State University.The galaxy – dubbed M60-UCD1 –...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Interview with Stephanie Preston, scientific glassblower

October 31, 2013
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Laboratory News visits Big Ask participant Stephanie Preston about the seemingly dwindling art-form of scientific glassblowing.We learn how Stephanie became interested in the delicate and intricate process of blowing glass...
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Plant scientists pick wrong model

October 30, 2013
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One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists because they have been looking at the wrong flower.Arabidopsis thaliana grows abundantly in cracks...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany
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New model to guide self-assembly

October 29, 2013
News
A new model which allows better control of self-assembly – the process through which molecules aggregate themselves into large clusters – has been developed by researchers in Eindhoven.Molecular organisation of...
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Breaking the blood-brain barrier

October 28, 2013
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Scientists from the University of Oxford have broken the blood-brain barrier, allowing cancer drugs to be delivered to life-threatening cancers which have spread to the vital organ.The study – in...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology
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Sorting the good from the bad bacteria

October 24, 2013
News
There are good bacteria and bad bacteria – some coexisting in the same species – and researchers at MIT have developed a new microfluidic technique which can quickly distinguish bacteria...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Virology
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‘Writing’ artificial membranes on graphene

October 23, 2013
News
Graphene has emerged as a versatile new surface on which to assemble model cell membranes mimicking those in the human body, with potential applications in sensors, disease detection and drug...
Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Materials Science
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