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Hookworms to treat MS

April 30, 2012
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Parasitic worms could offer a new treatment for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) say researchers from the University of Nottingham.Scientists are recruiting patients who suffer from MS for a clinical...
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Dione has oxygen exosphere

April 27, 2012
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Saturn’s moon Dione has a weak exosphere which includes molecules of oxygen suggests new findings from Cassini.In a pass of Dione in April 2010, the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) detected...
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Glowing fish offer clues to pollution damage

April 27, 2012
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Green-glowing zebrafish could offer new clues to the health impacts of pollution on both wildlife and human health.A team from the University of Exeter and University College London (UCL) created...
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Brain freeze offers new insight into headache

April 27, 2012
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The phenomenon of brain freeze – associated with eating ice-cream and cold drinks – has been used as a proxy to study migraines and other types of headaches.Researchers in America...
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New clues to cancer communication

April 27, 2012
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There is growing interest in the idea that the body’s immune system might be trained to fight cancer, and new research suggests intercepting communication signals sent around the body by...
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Sanofi to close R&D and drug manufacturing site

April 25, 2012
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Sanofi are to close their drug manufacturing site in Newcastle, and the Genzyme R&D site in Cambridge, resulting in the loss of over 500 jobs.The Fawdon site in Newcastle will...
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Observing embryonic development

April 25, 2012
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Embryonic development that was previously unobservable has now become observable thanks to Cambridge researchers who have established a new method to visualise embryos ex utero.During the first four days of...
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Advances in blood clot switch understanding

April 25, 2012
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Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding how a biochemical switch linked to blood-clotting, strokes and heart disease is switched on.Researchers led by the University of Leicester – and...
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Marine worm with a toxic diet

April 23, 2012
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Faced with a scarce food supply in the sandy sediments in which it lives, a small marine worm survives on a highly poisonous menu of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide.The...
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Glowing nanotubes to aid therapeutics

April 23, 2012
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Glowing carbon nanotubes could be the key to delivering drugs to cancer cells or modified DNA molecules for gene therapy say researchers in Bath. Researchers from the Department of Chemistry...
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Click chemistry to aid biotechnology research

April 20, 2012
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A new technique to click together DNA and RNA segments has won researchers from Southampton and Oxford a £4 million grant from the BBSRC.Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and...
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Revealing how a soil bacterium carries out surprising chemistry

April 18, 2012
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An international team of researchers have discovered how soil bacteria utilising surprising chemistry defies a longstanding set of chemical rules and could pave the way for a new synthesis of...
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