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Chemical structures transferred to public domain

January 8, 2014
Patented chemical structures are to be transferred to the public domain, giving researchers access to a new source of highly relevant compounds related to curing human disease.SureChem – developed by...

Unique organ gives koalas low-pitched call

December 19, 2013
Koalas have an unusual mating call; its pitch is about 20 times lower than it should be for an animal of its size.The cause of the extremely low-pitched bellow calls...

Rudolf’s eye adaptation copes with extremes

December 11, 2013
Reindeers’ eyes have to function in extreme conditions – continuous summer daylight, followed by continuous winter darkness – and researchers have discovered they adapt their eye colour to deal with...

Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

November 29, 2013
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass extinction event nearly 252 million years ago.The cause of the massive extinction at...

New mammalian cell culture facility

November 25, 2013
A new mammalian cell culture cGMP manufacturing facility has been opened in Billingham, Teesside by Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies.The new facility – commissioned and built within 15 months – is the...

Sticky sperm

November 20, 2013
Sticky sperm could hold the key to greater success for those undergoing IVF treatment say researchers from the University of Leeds.A £1.3m trial – the largest clinical trial to date...

Sea louse with second body clock

November 11, 2013
The tiny speckled sea louse boasts not one but two body clocks _– one for night and day, and one for the ebb and flow of the tide.While the body...

Science Nobels awarded

November 6, 2013
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging from how cells organise their transport systems to complex chemical systems and, perhaps unsurprisingly, to the proposers...

New technique to image cell interior

November 4, 2013
A new method of imaging cells is allowing scientists from Queen Mary University of London to see tiny structures inside the nucleus of the cell for the first time.Recent advances...

Plant scientists pick wrong model

October 30, 2013
One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists because they have been looking at the wrong flower.Arabidopsis thaliana grows abundantly in cracks...

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