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13th Jul 2009

How the Turtle Got its Shell


Ben Valsler
Turtle

On this weeks Newsflash we hear how the development of salt-tolerant GM crops could help to feed the world and how branching blood vessels could stop you getting the best from statins. Also how the turtle got it's shell and Darwin meets hip hop in the rap guide to evolution. Plus we look back to 1867 and the first explosive demonstration of dynamite...

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(c) Image courtesy of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG)/University of Adelaide.

Salt-Tolerant GM Plants

Australian scientists have developed a technique to make plants salt-tolerant. Writing in the leading plant sciences journal The Plant Cell, Adelaide University researcher Professor Mark Tester and his team explain how they have used genetic techniques to increase the activity, in the plant's root ...

(c) Concept & Design - RDANY.COM

World Population Day

Every single minute, a woman dies from pregnancy related causes somewhere in the world.  That’s one statement from the Population Institute in Washington made to highlight World Population Day, held by the United Nations Population fund on the 11th of July.Global population is growing at a phen...

(c) Mykhal

Branched Blood Vessels Slow Statins

The shape of blood vessels may affect how effective Statins are against preventing heart disease, according to new research published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry this week. Statins lower levels of Low-Density Lipoprotein, or LDL, Cholesterol found in the plasma of our blood, and so help ...


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(c) John G. Murdoch

The Rap Guide to Evolution

Darwin meets Hip hop at Baba Brinkman unveils his Rap Guide to Evolution at Cambridge University's Darwin Festival...

(c) Gösta Florman

This week in science history - The first demonstration of dynamite

This week in science history saw, in 1867, Alfred Nobel first demonstrate dynamite in the UK, at Merstham Quarry in Surrey. Nobel had invented dynamite two years earlier and this demonstration was the first step towards a lucrative UK patent for the substance...




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