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Tweezers break up Parkinson’s aggregates

April 16, 2012
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Molecular tweezers have been shown to block protein aggregation, prevent toxicity and reverse aggregates already present in Parkinson’s brains without interfering with normal brain function.It’s not known what causes Parkinson’s...
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Inbreeding didn’t kill off Wrangel mammoths

April 13, 2012
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Mammoths living on Wrangel Island didn’t go extinct due to inbreeding says new research.The majority of mammoths disappeared from Eurasia and North American 10,000 years ago, but a small population...
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Fruit flies get kidney stones

April 13, 2012
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When exposed to certain dietary foods, fruit flies rapidly and reliably get kidney stones.Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the Mayo Clinic in America have shown that Drosophila can...
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Earth’s clock refined

April 13, 2012
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Some events in Earth’s history may have happened more recently than previously thought suggests new research from the British Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Major geological events...
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Protecting cells from HIV

April 12, 2012
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The protein SAMHD1 protects cells from infection by HIV, and researchers hope to harness its protective mechanism to develop therapeutic approaches aimed at slowing the virus’ progression to AIDS. When...
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Ocean acidification speeds up

April 11, 2012
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The oceans are acidifying faster today than at any other time in the past 300 million years say researchers in Spain.Much research into ocean acidification is based on experiments in...
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Heart attack deaths halve in last decade

April 10, 2012
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The number of deaths in England caused by heart attacks has halved in the last decade say researchers from the University of Oxford.The study used national hospital and mortality data...
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Hep C vaccine breakthrough

April 4, 2012
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A decade of research into hepatitis C may have yielded results as researchers in Canada have announced the discovery of a vaccine against the disease.Hepatitis C is more virulent than...
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Time for something a little different…

April 4, 2012
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Slug-like aliens on a Segway and the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire – not necessarily two things you would put together but the idea has just won Corie Ralston first...
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A prehistoric revolution (with video)

April 3, 2012
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Dinosaurs just don’t work – they’re too large to have carried their colossal weight on four limbs without some sort of support says Brian J Ford. He believes this support...
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Manipulating antimatter with microwaves

April 2, 2012
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By manipulating antihydrogen atoms with microwaves, scientists have provided the first glimpse of an anti-atomic fingerprint.Researchers at CERN – led by a Canadian team – confined antiatoms in a magnetic...
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UK Biobank opens

March 30, 2012
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UK Biobank – a key resource for health research – opens today with more than 1,000 separate pieces of information from over half a million Britons.It currently contains around 20...
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