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Survival of the copycats

April 6, 2011
Sea turtles return to the same beach they were born on to lay their eggs – even though swim past perfectly good beaches on the way – and researchers think...

Nano-Velcro for CTCs

April 4, 2011
A Velcro-like nanoscale device capable of capturing marauding tumour cells from metastatic cancers has been developed by researchers at UCLA.

Nature’s nanospring

April 1, 2011
International researchers have unravelled elastin – a protein which allows our lungs to expand and contract as we breathe and our arteries to dilate and constrict with our heart beat.

Remedies from spacebound bacteria

March 30, 2011
Bacteria shot into space in 2006 might provide inspiration for novel remedies on Earth say NASA scientists.

Beating the blood-brain barrier

March 30, 2011
The impermeable blood-brain barrier makes it impossible to deliver drugs to fight neurodegenerative diseases to the brain, but researchers have discovered a way through the wall – exosomes.

Multiple myeloma genome visualised

March 30, 2011
The genetic blueprint of multiple myeloma has yielded new and unexpected insights into how this form of blood cancer develops and could influence the direction of research into the disease.

Giant rabbit lost its hop

March 29, 2011
A giant rabbit that lost its ability to hop lived on the island of Minorca millions of years ago say palaeontologists, who have named the beast Nuralagus rex or Minorcan...

From sea squirt to human tissue

March 28, 2011
Once again, Nature has proved a great source of inspiration – this time it’s the sea squirt, whose cellulose can influence the behaviour of skeletal muscle cells in the lab

Oxfordshire company scoops two Rushlight Awards

March 25, 2011
An Oxfordshire company scooped two awards and was highly commended at the annual Rushlight award ceremony.

Forecasting the Sun’s future

March 24, 2011
Astronomers sifting through data from the Kepler telescope have discovered waves inside a star so deep that they reach the core – a finding which forecasts the future of our...

Decline of the physicists

March 23, 2011
Nearly 500 schools and colleges in England failed to enter a single candidate in A-level physics according to a new report released by the Royal Society.

Malaria drug can combat cancer

March 21, 2011
An anti-malaria drug used in combination with cancer treatments can enhance its effectiveness by over 50% – more with treatment breaks – say researchers from St George’s, University of London

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