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Couch potato sheds light on exercise and diabetes

January 24, 2011
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Mice lacking in a protein coactivator maintain normal activity and body weight, but can’t seem to muster up the energy to exercise say American researchers.
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Banded penguins suffer

January 24, 2011
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Trying to tell one penguin apart from another can be quite difficult – the tuxedoed birds tend to look very similar – so scientists developed a method of banding their...
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Fatal childhood disease treated with soya

January 21, 2011
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Soya beans could hold the key to treating a fatal childhood disease say researchers in Manchester, who have been testing a derivative of the bean on mice.
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Science talent worries over immigration cap

January 19, 2011
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The Government is proposing to cap the number of non-EU economic migrants entering the UK at 21,700 per year – what does this mean for the UK science sector?
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GM against bird flu

January 19, 2011
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Genetically modified chickens with a decoy molecule could prevent the spread of avian flu to other birds and improve economic and food security.
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Clever plastics indicate off food

January 19, 2011
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Packaging that changes colour to alert consumers when food is starting to go off is being developed by scientists at the University of Strathclyde.
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Resurrecting the mighty

January 19, 2011
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In an attempt to figure out why the mammoth became extinct over 10,000 years ago, an international group of scientists aim to bring the giant species back to life.
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Buckyball leads to 3D breakthrough

January 17, 2011
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A ‘guest’ molecule has led to a major breakthrough in nanotechnology by allowing scientists to build 3D structures on a surface, a discovery which may lead to cutting-edge nano devices.
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Rhea’s Atmosphere holds surprise oxygen

January 14, 2011
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A fragile atmosphere of carbon dioxide and oxygen has been discovered around Rhea, Saturn’s second-largest moon, by the Cassini-Huygens mission.
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Monopoles and magnetricity – the story of spin ice

January 12, 2011
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A major breakthrough has been made in understanding magnetic monopoles and magnetricity as scientists have created artificial spin ice in a state of thermal equilibrium for the first time.
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Leaky blood vessel drug treats Alzheimer’s

January 10, 2011
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Drugs currently used to treat leaky blood vessels could treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease say researchers in Bristol investigating the function of blood vessels in the brains of people with...
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Innocent bystander is not so innocent

January 7, 2011
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The long-standing mystery of how HIV promotes the death of CD4 T cells and causes AIDS has been solved by scientists in America – it’s down to “bystander cell killing”.
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