All articles by Victoria Gill – Page 4
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Cancer therapy targets bad blood
Biological tags on tumour blood vessels could provide new therapeutic targets
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A good year for mouth wash
Antibacterial compounds in wine shown to inhibit tooth-rotting microbes
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Salty water makes barnacles stick
A sea-like saline solution triggers the self-assembly of barnacle adhesive peptides
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EU legislation will prevent MRI scans
European physical agents legislation could make MRI scanners 'impractical', new study shows
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Europe speeds medicines to market under revised rules
Revised European regulations alow drugs to be approved faster
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Pigment helps fungi to 'eat' radiation
Radiation can be used as an energy source by some fungi, according to a report from scientists in the US
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GSK drug's safety questioned
Study finds that diabetes treatment Avandia raises heart attack risks
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Wine's fruity chemicals sniffed out
Analysis of red wines with mass spectrometers and noses has revealed the chemistry behind their fruitiness
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Particle physics gets smaller
The University of Manchester, UK, is leading a project to build a more compact particle accelerator
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Amyloid protein seen to zip together
Proteins found to zip together amyloid fibrils could provide a new therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases
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Nanoscale scales
Sensor that detects mass of particles in a liquid to within one thousandth of a millionth of a millionth of a gram
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AstraZeneca scoops up $15.6 billion vaccine business
UK drug company, AstraZeneca buy MedImmune in 'ferociously competitive' deal to boost vaccine portfolio
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A dog's life
'Life-long dog study' provides a unique data set showing direct links between diet and longevity in large animals.
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Target for memory-enhancing pills identified
Crucial enzyme changes memory-making abilities of mice
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New limits set on chirality
Textbooks need updating as researchers measure the spatial arrangement of the most subtly chiral molecule ever synthesised
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World's smallest bowl of 'alphabet soup'
A suspension of microscopic letters marks a key step towards complex engineering on the nanoscale.