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Space penetrator a smashing success

June 27, 2008
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Scientists have been smashing their instruments into the Welsh countryside in preparation for future planetary space missions.
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Dissolving glass stimulates bone growth

June 27, 2008
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Scientists from Imperial College London are developing a new form of glass, which can dissolve inside the body releasing calcium stimulating bone growth.
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Collaboration extends cancer research tools

June 25, 2008
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Cambridge Enterprise portfolio company Horizon Discovery is to link custom cell biology assays from contract researchers Hypoxium with its proprietary isogenic cell lines to offer a new range of services...
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Sticky patents licenced from MOD

June 23, 2008
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Archimedes Development has licensed a portfolio of patents from Ploughshare Innovations - the technology transfer arm of the Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
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Protein interaction explains life’s complexity

June 20, 2008
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The complexity of an organism lies in the number of protein interactions in its body rather than the number of genes – and now a team of scientists have found...
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Laser fusion a step closer

June 18, 2008
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Scientists are one step closer to fusion power thanks to work at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory that heated significant volumes of solid matter to temperatures of 10 million degrees Kelvin
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Diamond shines in first real test

June 17, 2008
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Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have been the first to use the Diamond Light Source’s new test beamline.
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Cowboy lasso key to cancer treatment

June 16, 2008
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Scientists have compared a protein vital for passing on an accurate copy of the genome from mother to daughter cells to a cowboy’s lasso.
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Following leader not always best idea

June 13, 2008
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For animals that live in social groups, and that includes humans, blindly following a leader could place them in danger.
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Volcanologists earn their crust

June 11, 2008
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Scientists from Durham University have set off to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth’s crust.
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Texting costs are astronomical

June 9, 2008
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A UK space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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New guidlines published as mouse models thrown into question

June 6, 2008
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As guidelines for animal testing are published, new genetic data suggests mouse models may not be relevant for studying human disease
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