New clues to cancer communication
April 27, 2012
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...
Sanofi to close R&D and drug manufacturing site
April 25, 2012
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...
Observing embryonic development
April 25, 2012
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...
Advances in blood clot switch understanding
April 25, 2012
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...
Marine worm with a toxic diet
April 23, 2012
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...
Glowing nanotubes to aid therapeutics
April 23, 2012
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...
Click chemistry to aid biotechnology research
April 20, 2012
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...
Revealing how a soil bacterium carries out surprising chemistry
April 18, 2012
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...
Tweezers break up Parkinson’s aggregates
April 16, 2012
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...
Inbreeding didn’t kill off Wrangel mammoths
April 13, 2012
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...
Fruit flies get kidney stones
April 13, 2012
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...
Earth’s clock refined
April 13, 2012
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...
