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Category: Life sciences

Agronomy/Food Science - Life sciences 08.09.2010 Researchers attack plum pox to save state’s stone fruits

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 08.09.2010 New director takes over at Primate Center

Life sciences 08.09.2010 Researchers find that interneurons are not all created equally

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 08.09.2010 All kitted out and raring to go

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 07.09.2010 Largest ever Epigenetics project launched

Life sciences - Environmental sciences 07.09.2010 Mother’s care is key to a big brain

Life sciences - Environmental sciences 07.09.2010 Is organic farming good for wildlife?

Life sciences 07.09.2010 Unwrapping DNA delivers cell insights

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 06.09.2010 Who owns our genes?

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 06.09.2010 Scientists Create New Process to "Program" Cancer Cell Death

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 06.09.2010 Genetic link for ALS risk confirmed

Life sciences - Chemistry 05.09.2010 New self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 05.09.2010 Researchers Identify Protein that Fights West Nile Virus

Chemistry - Life sciences 03.09.2010 Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 03.09.2010 Novartis and collaborators discover novel antimalarial drug candidate

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 02.09.2010 Diseases prove elusive in global genetic search

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 02.09.2010 Caltech Chemists Develop Simple Technique to Visualize Atomic-Scale Structures

Chemistry - Life sciences 02.09.2010 Sculpture in chemistry lab bonds science and art

Life sciences 02.09.2010 Acting selfish Blame your mother

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 02.09.2010 Fulbright scholar begins health study

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 02.09.2010 Sugar does not relieve newborn pain

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 01.09.2010 New study investigates use of soy-rich diet for preventing chronic pain after breast cancer surgery

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 01.09.2010 Manchester conference to discuss ’the Lord of the flies’

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 01.09.2010 Ash forests rise and rise again

Life sciences - Business/Economics 31.08.2010 Economic Theory Suggests Symbiosis Is Driven by Simple Self-Interest, Not Rewards or Punishment

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 31.08.2010 High-speed filter uses electrified nanostructures to purify water at low cost

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 30.08.2010 Research demonstrates benefits of medical cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 27.08.2010 Number of children admitted to English hospitals with bacterial pneumonia decreases

Life sciences 27.08.2010 Unravelling the code of the brain

Life sciences - Agronomy/Food Science 27.08.2010 Decoding of wheat genome will help address global food shortage

Life sciences - Environmental sciences 26.08.2010 UK researchers release draft sequence coverage of wheat genome

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 26.08.2010 How much smoking is safe The answer appears to be none

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 26.08.2010 Study uncovers genetic origins of rare kidney disease

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 26.08.2010 Banana plantain fibres could treat Crohn’s disease

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 25.08.2010 Liver cells created from patients’ skin cells

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 25.08.2010 Multiple sclerosis researchers receive £100,000 grant from Freemasons

Life sciences - Chemistry 25.08.2010 First picture of genetic processes inside cell developed at Penn State

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 25.08.2010 Sex more likely for female flies with promise of food

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 24.08.2010 Malaria researcher wins major science prize

Life sciences - Mathematics 24.08.2010 Scientists Say Natural Selection Alone Can Explain Eusociality, Cooperative Social Structure in Many of Earth’s Dominant Species

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 24.08.2010 Bacteria make thrift a habit, U-M researchers find

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 24.08.2010 Body clock drugs could ease psychiatric disorders and jet lag

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 24.08.2010 New “Naked Scientists” series investigates our oceans

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 24.08.2010 Probing Question: What is a lucid dream?

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 24.08.2010 Gene study supports link between vitamin D deficiency and disease

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 23.08.2010 Plants give up some deep secrets of drought resistance

Life sciences 22.08.2010 Fruit Flies Use Horizontal Landmarks for Altitude Control, Says Caltech Research Team

Life sciences - Chemistry 22.08.2010 Researchers develop a better way to grow stem cells

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 20.08.2010 NASA Images Show Anatomy of Pakistan Flood Disaster

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 20.08.2010 Researchers advance understanding of enzyme that regulates DNA

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 20.08.2010 Research fellow begins fenofibrate study

Chemistry - Life sciences 20.08.2010 Australian scientists discover first new chlorophyll in 60 years

Life sciences 19.08.2010 Less is more for a hungry bat

Pedagogy/Education science - Life sciences 19.08.2010 Faithful females key to evolution of bird societies

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 18.08.2010 Stem cell role in tissue regeneration

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 18.08.2010 Two Caltech Scientists Receive 2010 NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 18.08.2010 Paper wasps punish peers for misrepresenting their might

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 18.08.2010 How ancient relationship with friendly bacteria shaped aphids’ unique immune system

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 18.08.2010 Melbourne to lead $67 million in Super Science projects

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 18.08.2010 ANU congratulates Eureka Prize winners

Earth sciences - Life sciences 17.08.2010 Possible discovery of earliest animal life pushes back fossil record

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 17.08.2010 Scientists uncover Achilles heel of chronic inflammatory pain

Earth sciences - Life sciences 16.08.2010 Butchered giants and headless bodies - Pacific mystery exposed

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 16.08.2010 Brain connections break down as we age

Life sciences 12.08.2010 Single neurons can detect sequences

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 12.08.2010 Stress may delay women getting pregnant

Chemistry - Life sciences 11.08.2010 New Nanoscale Transistors Allow Sensitive Probing Inside Cells

Psychology - Life sciences 11.08.2010 MRI scans show brain’s response to actions of others in Stanford study

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 11.08.2010 Adult autism diagnosis by brain scan

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 10.08.2010 Measuring the speed of thought

Computer Science/Telecom - Life sciences 10.08.2010 Glaucoma sufferers to benefit from supercomputer

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 10.08.2010 Secrets of the Simpson Desert unveiled

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 09.08.2010 The Salp: Nature’s near-perfect little engine just got better

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 09.08.2010 Genetic differences that make some people susceptible to meningitis revealed

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 09.08.2010 Inhibiting prostate cancer without disturbing regular body processes

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 09.08.2010 Gene linked to TB susceptibility identified

Life sciences 06.08.2010 £15m research centre to probe origin of intelligence

Life sciences - Chemistry 06.08.2010 Scientists showcase their research at the Science Museum

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 06.08.2010 UCL prize for paper on pioneering biomedical imaging device

Life sciences - Earth sciences 05.08.2010 Frog evolution tracks rise of Himalayas and rearrangement of Southeast Asia

Life sciences - Chemistry 05.08.2010 New insights on malaria cycle

Life sciences 05.08.2010 ’Fearless’ aphids ignore warnings, get eaten by ladybugs

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 05.08.2010 New building block in cells

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 05.08.2010 Holiday sun: a recipe for skin cancer?

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 05.08.2010 Gene find raises hope of heart risk test

Life sciences - Psychology 05.08.2010 Economic status, genetics together influence psychopathic traits

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 05.08.2010 Biomarkers for CAD risk identified

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 05.08.2010 H1N1 flu virus used new biochemical trick to cause pandemic

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 05.08.2010 Gene study offers new target for breast cancer drugs

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 05.08.2010 Expo spotlight turns to biomedicine

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 04.08.2010 Genome of ancient sponge reveals origins of first animals, cancer

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 04.08.2010 Biologists Discover MicroRNAs that Control Function of Blood Stem Cells

Earth sciences - Life sciences 04.08.2010 Ancient blob-like creature of the deep revealed by scientists

Life sciences - Chemistry 04.08.2010 Mandrills use odour to identify potential mates

Psychology - Life sciences 03.08.2010 Emotions help animals to make choices

Life sciences 03.08.2010 Matthew Silk samples the buzz of the bee lab

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 03.08.2010 NASA Invites Media To View Space Station Cargo For STS-133 Mission

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 02.08.2010 Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate older synapses

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 02.08.2010 Herbaria: science and specimens

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 02.08.2010 Life under UCL microscope inspires schoolchildren’s art

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 02.08.2010 Cancer-causing bacterium targets tumor-suppressor protein

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 02.08.2010 International two-year master’s expanded

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 01.08.2010 Deep, open ocean is vastly under-explored

Life sciences 01.08.2010 Gain and Loss in Optimistic Versus Pessimistic Brains

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 01.08.2010 Exercise and Caloric Restriction Rejuvenate Synapses in Lab Mice

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 01.08.2010 Epileptic seizures may be linked to an ancient gene family

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 30.07.2010 Cell research reveals new twists in genetic diseases

Life sciences - Chemistry 30.07.2010 Protein helps prevent damaged DNA in yeast

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 30.07.2010 Biomedicine at the Expo

Life sciences - Environmental sciences 29.07.2010 Ancient reptiles ’make tracks’

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 29.07.2010 A breakthrough in tuberculosis research

History/Philosophy - Life sciences 29.07.2010 Families discover hidden treasures in Cambridge museums this summer

Pedagogy/Education science - Life sciences 28.07.2010 Evolution's parent trap

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 28.07.2010 Huntington disease discovery provides new hope for treatment

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 27.07.2010 Scientists to test new eczema cream

Earth sciences - Life sciences 27.07.2010 Dr Phil sets off on a hunt for the dinosaur skeletons

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 26.07.2010 Engineers use rocket science to make wastewater treatment sustainable

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 26.07.2010 Restoring the UK’s peat bogs as a carbon sink

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 26.07.2010 Why more education lowers dementia risk

Life sciences - Psychology 23.07.2010 Genetic link to emotional problems

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 23.07.2010 RNA offers a safer way to reprogram cells

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 23.07.2010 New approach in cancer treatment

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 23.07.2010 Major breakthrough in Alzheimer research

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 22.07.2010 New Research Shows Breakdown of Bone Keeps Blood Sugar in Check

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 22.07.2010 Medicine from Moss

Life sciences 22.07.2010 Gene linked to aging also linked to Alzheimer s

Life sciences - Business/Economics 22.07.2010 UCL professor recognised as ’next-gen’ scientific leader

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 22.07.2010 Mountain marmots made bigger by climate change, says new study

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 22.07.2010 Redundant genetic instructions in 'junk DNA' support healthy development

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 22.07.2010 ANU pair makes Eureka Prize finals

Life sciences 21.07.2010 Marriage patterns drive fertility decline

Life sciences - Mathematics 21.07.2010 New MSc at Imperial to help biologists tackle big issues

Life sciences 21.07.2010 Scientists tap into Antarctic octopus venom

Life sciences - Chemistry 20.07.2010 NASA Goes Deep in Search of Extreme Environments

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 20.07.2010 Disease genes that followed the Silk Road identified

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 20.07.2010 Unlocking the secrets of cellular energy holds promise for obesity, diabetes and cancer

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 20.07.2010 Cells grouping tactic points to new cancer treatments

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 20.07.2010 Back to the future for flu fighters

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 19.07.2010 Two HSCI groups find residual genetic ’memory’ in iPS cells;

Life sciences 19.07.2010 By putting a ring on it," microparticles can be captured

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 19.07.2010 Temperature Constancy Appears Key to Tropical Biodiversity

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 19.07.2010 Of Bugs & Brains: Caltech Researchers Discover that Gut Bacteria Affect Multiple Sclerosis

Life sciences - Computer Science/Telecom 19.07.2010 ‘Condor’ brings genome assembly down to Earth

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 19.07.2010 Screen yields drugs that could help treat fatal brain disorder

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 19.07.2010 Melting DNA into a barcode

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 18.07.2010 Scientists find new way to beat viruses

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 18.07.2010 MIT creates technology for high-speed study of zebrafish larvae

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 16.07.2010 Penicillin: the Oxford story

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 16.07.2010 Surprising solution to an old problem

Life sciences 16.07.2010 Part of the brain that tracks limbs in space discovered

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 16.07.2010 Pain relief under development could help millions worldwide

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 15.07.2010 Bright stars of the brain regulate breathing

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 15.07.2010 Stem cells to aid study of Parkinson s

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 15.07.2010 Small fish exploits forbidding environment

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 14.07.2010 Bright stars of the brain regulate breathing

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 14.07.2010 Retrovirus replication process different than thought

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 13.07.2010 Opening the gate to the cell’s recycling center

Earth sciences - Life sciences 13.07.2010 Fossil find puts a face on early primates

Life sciences 13.07.2010 Large mammals declining in Africa’s parks

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 12.07.2010 Genes ’decide who wins in body’s battle against cancer’

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 11.07.2010 Protein linked to aging may boost memory and learning ability

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 08.07.2010 Canine influenza vaccine found effective against secondary infections

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 07.07.2010 Maternal Genes Predominate in the Developing Brain; Paternal Genes Gain the Upper Hand in Adulthood

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 05.07.2010 Scientists reveal the mystery of sudden cardiac death

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 05.07.2010 Scientists discover how to switch cancer protector gene on

Agronomy/Food Science - Life sciences 05.07.2010 Scientists find natural way to curb your greed

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 02.07.2010 Muscular problems in children with neonatal diabetes are neurological

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 01.07.2010 ’Wonder gene’ found to affect blood pressure

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 01.07.2010 Tibetans adapted to high altitude in less than 3,000 years

Life sciences 01.07.2010 Killer whales and the mystery of human menopause

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 01.07.2010 Q&A: UCL Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 01.07.2010 Phase III study shows Novartis drug Afinitor more than doubles time without tumor growth in advanced pancreatic NET patients

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 01.07.2010 Depressed mice could aid research on depression in humans

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 30.06.2010 A butterfly effect in the brain

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 30.06.2010 Caltech Biologists Discover How T Cells Make a Commitment

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 30.06.2010 Histone H1 regulates gene activity throughout the cell cycle

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 30.06.2010 Researchers Establish Genetic Basis of Alopecia Areata

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 30.06.2010 Advances in understanding cystic fibrosis recognised with award

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 30.06.2010 Research: Major breakthrough will revolutionize the screening and treatment of genetic diseases

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 30.06.2010 Cambridge University to ‘blitz’ city

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 30.06.2010 Photonic future bright thanks to IPOS

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 29.06.2010 Researchers Show How Active Immune Tolerance Makes Pregnancy Possible

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 29.06.2010 Importance of cell-cell communication

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 29.06.2010 Prolonged altitude training could reduce endurance

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 29.06.2010 South Asians have highest rate of heart disease in UK

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 29.06.2010 Lizard reveals cancer secrets

Life sciences - Environmental sciences 28.06.2010 Robofish leads the crowd to open up new studies in group dynamics

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 28.06.2010 How do you spell relief Two more years of pain research for AstraZeneca and McGill

Life sciences - Chemistry 28.06.2010 Virus ’explorers’ probe inner workings of the brain

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 28.06.2010 12 new genes linked to type 2 diabetes

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 25.06.2010 Researchers’ analysis: Scientific expertise lacking among climate change ’doubters’

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 25.06.2010 Green energy from algae

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 25.06.2010 Visitors ’skin’ an exhibit to explore disfiguring disease

Life sciences - History/Philosophy 25.06.2010 Old males win sex battle

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 25.06.2010 Diabetes doubles risk of heart attack and strokes

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 25.06.2010 Stem cell breakthrough enters permanent national exhibition

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 25.06.2010 Microbial protein restores vision in blind animals

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 24.06.2010 Gene study offers diabetes hope

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 24.06.2010 Study of 10,000 human genomes launched

Life sciences - Computer Science/Telecom 24.06.2010 An ant’s eye view of the world at the Royal Society science festival