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Pause on avian flu research

January 26, 2012
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A two-month moratorium on studies that make the avian influenza virus H5N1 more transmissible between mammals has been signed by 39 influenza researchers amid fear of bioterrorism.This voluntary pause recommends...
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Planck has run dry

January 19, 2012
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The Planck telescope is about to run out of coolantSince 2009, a mixture of helium-3 and helium-4 has been cooling the light detectors on the Planck telescope to a freezing...
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Understanding regulation

January 19, 2012
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An unexpected discovery has opened up new opportunities for targeting cancerA team from the University of Leicester have opened up a whole new approach to the therapeutic intervention for a...
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Cannabis on the brain

January 19, 2012
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For the first time, scientists have gained experimental evidence of the effects of specific chemicals found in cannabis on the brain.Scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London...
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NanoSight scoops Business Innovation Award

January 18, 2012
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NanoSight has won the Technology World’s 2011 Business Innovation Award for the Energy & Environment category in recognition of their position as world leading providers of nanoparticle characterisation technology.Their nanoparticle...
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Heading ball causes brain injury

January 16, 2012
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Advanced cognitive testing of amateur footballers has revealed frequent heading of the ball can lead to brain injury and cognitive impairment.In the first of two studies, researchers identified five areas...
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Murder investigation underway at Oxford

January 13, 2012
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A murder investigation is underway after an astrophysicist from University of Oxford died following an incident in Southmoor, Oxfordshire.Police were called to a house in Laurel Drive, Southmoor at 11.22pm...
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Physics teachers increase, but are they prepared?

January 13, 2012
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Trainee physics teachers are at an all-time high say the TDA, but their training can leave them ill-equipped in subject knowledge says a new report on science teacher trainingFigures released...
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Developmental stalling

January 11, 2012
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A whole host of things can go wrong during embryogenesis, but a team of researchers believe a novel mechanism might stall the development of human embryos to allow birth defect...
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New theory for lung development

January 9, 2012
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Medical textbooks may need to be re-written after researchers from the University of Leicester put forward a new theory for the development of our lungs, suggesting alveoli are constantly being...
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Gold nanorods to cook cancer from within

January 9, 2012
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Chemists in America have loaded more than 2 million gold nanorods into a single cancer cell in a breakthrough that could see the particles used as tiny heating elements to...
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Supercooling water

January 6, 2012
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Water can reach temperatures as low as -48°C before it absolutely must freeze say researchers in America, who believe their work may have important implications for the global climate.Chemists from...
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