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New crop antibiotics – without damaging the environment

December 9, 2019
News
UK scientists think they have a new way to protect crops from a widespread and devastating bacterial disease, without using environmentally damaging chemical sprays.
Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech
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Bioimaging collaboration takes on viral disease

December 9, 2019
News
A new institute collaboration will allow scientists to study viral diseases in greater detail.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics
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Quantum physics AI speeds up drug discovery

December 9, 2019
News
An international collaboration has seen a team using Artificial Intelligence normally used to predict molecular wave functions and the electronic properties of molecules to speed-up the design of drug molecules...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Pharmaceutical, Physics
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E.coli engineered to consume CO2

November 28, 2019
News
Synthetic biologists have engineered an autotrophic form of bacteria.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Environment
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Carbon nanotubes grown on newsprint

November 26, 2019
News
Your old copies of Lab News may still have some unexpected uses in the lab…
Chemistry, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Engineering, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Organic Chemistry
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Ethiopian ponds too extreme even for microbes

November 25, 2019
News
European biologists have confirmed the one place on Earth where conditions are too extreme for life to exist.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environment
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Curiosity rover reveals oxygen spikes on Mars

November 15, 2019
News
Readings from NASA’s Curiosity rover have revealed a surprising jump in oxygen in the Martian atmosphere in the red planet’s summer months.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Atmospheric Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Physics
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Ultra-fine particles linked to brain cancer

November 14, 2019
News
Air pollution nanoparticles have been linked to brain cancer for the first time.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Health/Diagnostics, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health
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AMR Centre nominates MBL inhibitor

November 11, 2019
News
The AMR Centre has nominated a preclinical candidate molecule for its programme to overcome resistance mechanisms in bacteria.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Health/Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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EPSRC funds new nuclear robotics facility

November 8, 2019
News
EPSRC is funding a new national facility that will support nuclear robotics R&D across four institutions in the UK.
Physics & Engineering
Particle Physics, Physics
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Wellcome leads genome-mapping project

November 8, 2019
News
The Wellcome Sanger Institute is among 10 organisations that are part of a project to map genomes of all known life on the British Isles.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment
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11,000 scientists declare climate emergency

November 6, 2019
News
More than 11,000 scientist signatories support new a paper warning of “untold human suffering” that will be caused by climate change without shifts in human activities.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Environment, Policy
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