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Perfect cocktail lessens inflammation

December 14, 2011
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Inflammation has evolved to help fight infection, but can be damaging in long term diseases: most non-infectious diseases are in fact worsened by inflammation. Researchers from the University of Manchester...
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Higgs not found…yet

December 13, 2011
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The end of the Large Hadron Collider’s 2011 run has revealed a glimpse of the elusive Higgs boson – but not enough for physicists to proclaiming its discovery.Scientists at CERN...
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Chronic pain eased by cannabis

December 13, 2011
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Patients with chronic pain may experience greater relief if doctors add cannabinoids to an opiates-only treatment plan suggests research from the University of California San Francisco.In the first study of...
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Nanocar takes to the copper highway

December 12, 2011
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A four wheel drive car just 1 nm long which uses electrons as fuel has been developed by researchers at the University of Groningen, who hope it might find uses...
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Nanocellulose powder developed

December 9, 2011
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Nanocellulose has the potential to be used in medical technology and the food and pharmaceutical industries, but when it dries out, it loses some of the mechanical properties that make...
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What caused Ice Age mass extinctions?

December 7, 2011
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Scientists have answered one of the most contentious questions in history – was it climate change or the presence of humans which caused extinction of some of the most iconic...
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Key element of cell division uncovered

December 5, 2011
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In dividing human cells, chromosomes are duplicated, and one copy is passed onto each daughter cell, but some cells with an unequal number of chromosomes bypass the body’s in-built health...
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Living antibiotics from vampire bacteria

December 2, 2011
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The genome of a vampire-like bacteria that leeches onto other specific bacteria as has its genome sequenced, and revealed its usefulness as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious...
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Creating the super-heavy

December 1, 2011
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The search for super-heavy elements is on – two international teams of scientists are currently in a battle to create super-heavy elements in the lab. The race to create element...
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Paracetamol pathway revealed

December 1, 2011
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We all reach for the paracetamol to ease our aches and pains, but exactly how the analgesic relieves our pain was a mystery. Now researchers from King’s College London have...
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How the fly flies

December 1, 2011
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The key to keeping a fly flying – and its distinctive buzzing sound – is a gene called Spalt, which German researchers say is essential for superfast muscles and could...
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Sanofi to oust Pfizer as leader of global pharma sales in 2012

December 1, 2011
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Sanofi is expected to oust Pfizer as number one for global pharmaceutical sales says EvaluatePharma Ltd, with Pfizer relegated to number three in the ranking. EvaluatePharma predict Sanofi will take...
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