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Advances in blood clot switch understanding

April 25, 2012
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Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding how a biochemical switch linked to blood-clotting, strokes and heart disease is switched on.Researchers led by the University of Leicester – and...
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Marine worm with a toxic diet

April 23, 2012
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Faced with a scarce food supply in the sandy sediments in which it lives, a small marine worm survives on a highly poisonous menu of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide.The...
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Glowing nanotubes to aid therapeutics

April 23, 2012
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Glowing carbon nanotubes could be the key to delivering drugs to cancer cells or modified DNA molecules for gene therapy say researchers in Bath. Researchers from the Department of Chemistry...
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Click chemistry to aid biotechnology research

April 20, 2012
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A new technique to click together DNA and RNA segments has won researchers from Southampton and Oxford a £4 million grant from the BBSRC.Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and...
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Revealing how a soil bacterium carries out surprising chemistry

April 18, 2012
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An international team of researchers have discovered how soil bacteria utilising surprising chemistry defies a longstanding set of chemical rules and could pave the way for a new synthesis of...
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Tweezers break up Parkinson’s aggregates

April 16, 2012
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Molecular tweezers have been shown to block protein aggregation, prevent toxicity and reverse aggregates already present in Parkinson’s brains without interfering with normal brain function.It’s not known what causes Parkinson’s...
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Inbreeding didn’t kill off Wrangel mammoths

April 13, 2012
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Mammoths living on Wrangel Island didn’t go extinct due to inbreeding says new research.The majority of mammoths disappeared from Eurasia and North American 10,000 years ago, but a small population...
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Fruit flies get kidney stones

April 13, 2012
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When exposed to certain dietary foods, fruit flies rapidly and reliably get kidney stones.Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the Mayo Clinic in America have shown that Drosophila can...
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Earth’s clock refined

April 13, 2012
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Some events in Earth’s history may have happened more recently than previously thought suggests new research from the British Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Major geological events...
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Protecting cells from HIV

April 12, 2012
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The protein SAMHD1 protects cells from infection by HIV, and researchers hope to harness its protective mechanism to develop therapeutic approaches aimed at slowing the virus’ progression to AIDS. When...
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Ocean acidification speeds up

April 11, 2012
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The oceans are acidifying faster today than at any other time in the past 300 million years say researchers in Spain.Much research into ocean acidification is based on experiments in...
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Heart attack deaths halve in last decade

April 10, 2012
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The number of deaths in England caused by heart attacks has halved in the last decade say researchers from the University of Oxford.The study used national hospital and mortality data...
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