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23rd Feb 2009
Fat Dinosaurs and the Descent of Man
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In this NewsFlash we find out how to build a tolerance to peanuts and beat allergies, discover how fat the dinosaurs were and how meningitis bacteria wear a disguise to evade our immune system. Plus, why both fish guts and tiger nuts could be an economic stimulus in Africa, and we delve into science history on the anniversary of Darwin's 'Descent of Man'.
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Researchers have successfully treated four individuals with peanut allergies using an approach called oral immuno-therapy.
Writing in the journal Allergy, lead author Dr Andy Clark, who is based at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, explains how he and his team recruited four boys aged between ni...
Cervical cancer is in the news here in the UK as reality TV star Jade Goody has been diagnosed with the diease. And this week researchers at King's College London have published a paper showing that rates of cervical cancer are higher in poorer areas than in richer ones - results hat have impo...
Scientists have found a drug which is highly effective at combating the symptoms of opioid withdrawal. Writing in the Journal of Pharmacogenetics and Genomics, Stanford University researcher Larry Chu and his colleagues made the discovery by studying how 18 different strains of morphine-addicted lab...
We usually think of dinosaurs as huge great beasts, roaring about and generally being terrifying. Now researchers at the University of Manchester have used laser imaging to reveal whether our favourite prehistoric beasts were trim and fit, or big old fattysauruses.
Writing in the journal PLoS...
Interviews
The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which is behind the most common form of meningitis, actually wears a disguise to stop itself from being detected by our immune system. Professor Susan Lea explains more...
This Week in Science history saw, in 1871, the publication of The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin – perhaps not as famous as the Origin of Species, published 12 years earlier, it was still an influential and controversial book...
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