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Proven efficacy for new polio vaccine

May 29, 2007
A new vaccine to prevent type-1 polio is three times as effective as the standard vaccine, according to new research.

Biotech boom puts india on verge of global market

May 25, 2007
A new study has shown that India’s health biotech firms are gaining global influence, with an increased ability not only to produce cheap drugs and vaccines domestically but also to...

Cellular ‘heartbeat’ to revolutionise drug testing

May 23, 2007
Researchers are a step closer to being able to detect what they have called the ‘heartbeat’ of individual cells, in a development that could change the way new drugs are...

Water may not help runners keep their cool

May 21, 2007
Last month 35,674 people ran the London Marathon, many of whom downed as much water as they could at each of the water stations on the route – but did...

Nanoscience creates world’s smallest book

May 18, 2007
The best things come in small packages, or so the saying goes – and it is something that one group of scientists thinks holds true for their newest development. The...

Environmental science looks to genomics

May 16, 2007
Genomics has received a lot of attention in the past few years, characterisation of whole genomes has revolutionised biological research – and now it looks set to do the same...

Is mud the key to a happy life?

May 14, 2007
Dirt – perhaps not the first thing you might think of as the ideal treatment for depression. However, scientists have found that mud could indeed be an elixir of mood.

Tiny wires power nano revolution

May 11, 2007
A scientist has developed a nanogenerator that can produce a continuous flow of electricity from ultrasonic waves or even blood flow.

European award for UK immunologist

May 9, 2007
An academic who developed a treatment for autoimmune disease that has helped millions of patients around the world has received a prestigious lifetime achievement award at this year’s European Inventor...

Earthquakes reveal the planet’s temperature

May 7, 2007
Scientists have taken the temperature of the Earth’s internal structure finding it to be a white-hot 3700?C – But rather than a thermometer, it was earthquake-generated seismic waves that proved...

Clear link for genetic component of obesity

May 3, 2007
Scientists in the UK have identified the clearest genetic link yet to obesity in the general population, suggesting that people with two copies of a specific gene have a 70%...

Green light for eco-car

April 30, 2007
Motor racing, hardly an ecologically sound past time, until now that is. Scientists and engineers have developed an environmentally-friendly race car with a difference - its shell is made from...

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