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Beating heart cells created in 11 days

April 8, 2011
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Adult skin cells have been converted directly into beating heart cells in just 11 days in a new technique that bypasses the need to generate embryonic-like stem cells
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UK Young Scientist scooped by a woman

April 8, 2011
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For the first time, a young woman has been named UK Young Scientist of the Year in the National Science and Engineering Competition.
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Survival of the copycats

April 6, 2011
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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...
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Reversing migratory cancer cells

April 6, 2011
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Ovarian cancer isn’t typically discovered until it’s already spread to other organs, by which time chemotherapy is ineffective, but researchers think they know how to revert metastatic cells back to...
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Nano-Velcro for CTCs

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

April 1, 2011
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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.
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Remedies from spacebound bacteria

March 30, 2011
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Bacteria shot into space in 2006 might provide inspiration for novel remedies on Earth say NASA scientists.
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Beating the blood-brain barrier

March 30, 2011
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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.
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Multiple myeloma genome visualised

March 30, 2011
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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.
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Giant rabbit lost its hop

March 29, 2011
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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...
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From sea squirt to human tissue

March 28, 2011
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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
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Oxfordshire company scoops two Rushlight Awards

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