- Kat Arney
Animal models of disease, including genetically modified (knockout) mice, nematode worms (C. elegans) and fruit flies (drosophila), help us to understand the molecular, cellular and chemical basis of disease, and to test new treatments safely.
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- Helen Scales
Napoleon wrasses are found on reefs across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. However over-exploitation by fisherman due to its status as a culinary delicacy is seriously threatening this magnificent fish.
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- Klaus Jost
Underwater photographer Klaus Jost photographs the great white shark using a neoprene seal as bait in 'shark alley' off Geyser island, South Africa. In thi
s article he also discusses conservation eforts to save the great white from extinction.
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- Becky Poole
Dementia-prone mice have shown researchers than an old mouse can learn new tricks, given the right environment...
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- Dalya Rosner
Dalya Rosner asks whether microchimerism (literally an animal with parts made from lots of animals) causes female autoimmune diseases which occur in relation to pregnancy, including diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE and primary sclerosing cholangitis?
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- Chris Smith
Chris Smith describes how cloning, occuring naturally in your body continuously, will have produced literally metres of new - cloned - DNA, by the time you
finish this article, as cells divide to replace themselves, repair injury or help us grow.
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- Adel Fattah
SEX: A short word. Often used. Often used to sell products in fact. Yet it is one of our base instincts, one of our prime motivations in life. So why do we find the opposite sex so attractive? And why do we need sex anyway?
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- Barry Gibb
Scientists studying the Conus snail have found that it harbours a cocktail of over 50 nerve toxins in its venom, some of which have powerful painkilling (a
nalgesic) properties, and are now undergoing clinical trials.
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- Mark Tester
Genetic modification (GM) is the heritable alteration of the genetic make-up of an organism, and is a natural process as old as genes themselves. Mark has a look at artificial and natural genetic modification.
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- Kat Arney
The fertility doctor Panos Zavos claimed to have cloned a human baby, while a team of researchers in South Korea also presented their clones to the world. So what's the difference between these stories?
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