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Mouse heart beats again with human stem cells

August 15, 2013
News
A decellularised mouse heart was able to contract and beat again when it was rebuilt with human stem cells.The research, reported in Nature Communications, suggests regenerating a functional organ by...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology
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Robotic frog improves boring mating call

August 12, 2013
News
A robotic frog has aided researchers to discover that manipulated mating calls can be very attractive to female túngara frogs. Micheal Ryan and Ryan Taylor conducted the research, published in...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Computer Science, Zoology
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Electrically charged insects perfect prey for spiders

August 9, 2013
News
Spider webs take advantage of an electrical charge built up by flying insects to snare their prey suggests a researcher at University of California, Berkeley.Inspired by his four year old...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Sea-level rise predictions could be flawed

August 7, 2013
News
Bristol researchers say the satellite record for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets needs to improve if we are to examine ice loss correctly.It is currently too short to tell...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography
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Watering your crops by phone

August 5, 2013
News
A new app has been developed which means smart phones could soon monitor irrigation water use according to need, to ensure food is produced in a sustainable way.“About 70% of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Botany
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Solar tsunami used to measure Sun’s magnetic field

August 2, 2013
News
A solar tsunami has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun’s magnetic field.Solar tsunamis are produced by huge explosions in the Sun’s atmosphere called coronal mass...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Hear a heartbeat in space

July 27, 2013
News
A new electronic stethoscope designed for NASA could deliver accurate heart and body sounds to doctors assessing the health of astronauts in a noisy spacecraft.Despite the silence of space itself,...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Unlocking the structure of elusive stress receptor

July 18, 2013
News
A spin-out pharmaceutical company has visualised for the first time a complicated protein receptor in the brain which controls our response to stress.Heptares Therapeutics, formed by a Cambridge molecular biology...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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Cellectricon launches grant to fund electroporation-based projects

July 18, 2013
News
Cellectricon is inviting researchers to apply for the recently launched Cellaxess Project Grant. The grant is open to any scientist or research group keen to use the advanced electromanipulation capabilities...
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Maths model explains why our Universe is a hologram

July 15, 2013
News
Researchers have taken a significant step to understanding the physics behind the structure of the Universe according to the holographic principle, by linking the two space-time theories.The Physical Review D...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics, Theoretical Physics
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Eel fluorescent protein transforms clinical assay

July 12, 2013
News
A Japanese freshwater eel called unagi possesses a fluorescent protein that could revolutionise a key clinical assay for bilirubin, a critical indicator of liver function, haemolysis and jaundice.A team from...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Zoology
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X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather

July 10, 2013
News
Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs and birds reveals that the feathers were patterned rather than all black as was previously...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Paleobiology
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