- Karen Smith
The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) is a large multi-centre study looking at the connection between diet and cancer. Karen has a look at what it involves and has found out.
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- Danielle Turner
Can we all be brilliant? Bit by bit thousands of researchers are trying to untangle the workings of the brain. But how near are we to understanding what turns some people's brains on and gives them a competitive advantage?
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- Bob Bury
Radiologist Bob Bury puts the case for screening the population for preventable, and less preventable, diseases. and looks at the strong emotions it can create.
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- Kat Arney
Imagine if you could turn your muscles into blood cells, or turning your bone marrow into muscle. How about changing your blood to brain cells, then back again, or making a spare liver from your bone marrow?
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- Chris Smith
This article looks at how influenza (flu) was discovered, how influenza spreads, infects people, and grows, how to recognise the signs and symptoms of the flu, how to diagnose and treat the flu, and how to prevent the flu by means of antiviral drugs and flu vaccines.
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- Chris Smith
A material designed originally to help rockets blast into space (Cytomatrix) is now helping scientists in America to grow stem cells in large numbers outside the body, potentially ushering in a new field of medicine where doctors prescribe cells rather than drugs.
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- Ruth Williams
The life of a laboratory animal is not generally an enviable one. However, for some fruitflies in San Francisco it must be pretty pleasant work. Ruth Williams looks at hangover flies - fruitfly mutants lacking the ability to handle their beer.
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- Dalya Rosner
Caffine seems to be vital for the functioning of the modern world, from keeping drivers awake to getting that last minute essay in on time. But why is it in the interests of the plants to make such a compound?.
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- Karen Smith
By the year 2020, the number of people in the world suffering from blindness will have risen to 45 million. The vast majority of these cases will be caused by untreated cataract. Caused by problems with some of the longest-lived proteins in the body called crystallins.
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- Karen Smith
In 1953 Cambridge scientists Watson & Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. 50 years later other Cambridge scientists such as John Sulston were key in decoding the human-genome - another fundamental breakthrough had occurred that might allow us to one day to personalise medicine.
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