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Foetus-friendly Stem Cells

The practice of destroying an embryo to harvest its stem cells so they can be used to repair diseased tissues is highly controversial; some argue that it co...

No pain, no gain

A family of firewalkers has helped researchers in Cambridge to track down the genetic linchpin that enables us to feel pain. Writing in this weeks Nature, Cambridge Scientist Geoff...

Maternal instinct protects brain

Researchers have discovered that a chemical released at the time of birth plays a major role in protecting a newborn's brain. Writing in this weeks Science, Roman Tyzio and colleag...

How mosquitoes sniff out CO2

Scientists have discovered how mosquitoes and other insects can smell carbon dioxide, a finding which might help in the discovery of more effective bug repellents. Working initiall...

Smoke Is Poison

Many of us here at the Naked Scientists have done our fair share of lab work, and I've handled nasty chemicals like formaldehyde and benzene with the aid of...

Bling Helps To Detect Cocaine

This week we've been hearing about the radioactive Polonium poisoning that killed Russian Alexander Litvinenko. Although that's extremely rare, doctors are ...

Bug Helps Chemo Home in on Cancer

Scientists have found a bacterium that can help target anti-cancer drugs to the heart of a tumour, reducing the damage done to healthy tissues and minimisin...

More Reasons For Red Wine Being Good For Us

Here on the Naked Scientists we've often talked about how scientists are uncovering more ways in which enjoying an occasional glass of red wine might be goo...

The Fever That Came in From The Cold

"Feed a cold and starve a fever", stated the doctors of yester-year, possibly wrongly, but now there's proof that running a temperature really doe...

More Reasons For Red Wine Being Good For Us

Here on the Naked Scientists we've often talked about how scientists are uncovering more ways in which enjoying an occasional glass of red wine might be goo...