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It's become traditional that Dr Chris nips to the little boys' room five minutes before every show, but scientists in Belgium have found a gene that may be partly responsible for t...

Fancy Trainers make take you down the road to ruin

A new study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine compared the relative merits of nine pairs of trainers ranging in price from "economical" to "ludicrously expen...

Pill bad for Lapdancers' fortunes

A new study by researchers at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and published in this month's Evolution and Human Behaviour shows that female lapdancers seeking to supers...

Researchers hit pain where it hurts

The ability to selectively switch off pain whilst leaving other nerve pathways unaffected has been a holy grail of anaesthesia for decades.  But now researchers in the US have...

Artificial cornea could save sight

The cornea is the transparent layer that covers the front of the eyeball and protects it.  But the cornea can become damaged, either through inherited disease or corrosion, an...

Pass me the protein stapler…

Last weekend Dr Kat was at the National Cancer Research Institute Conference in Birmingham, finding out about the latest advances in cancer science, and hobnobbing with some of the...

Scientists uncover key to cancer spread

Scientists have discovered a molecular switch that turns on a cancer cell's ability to spread to other parts of the body. Publishing in this week's Nature...

"Brain-Clotting" - new movie reveals origin of platelets

A Harvard-based research team have successfully produced a miniature movie of the generation of platelets, the key elements that allow blood to clot. Tobia...

Pollution Blood-Clotting Trigger Uncovered

Scientists have solved a long-running conundrum connecting high levels of air pollution with an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. Writing in th...

Good news for a change…

Sometimes it can seem like the news is full of scare stories about cancer, but this week has seen two pieces of research that could be seen as good news. ...