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Knocking meningitis bacteria on the head
... and also punching holes in their membranes. The body's own cells protect themselves from attack by adding to their ... up so much factor H that there isn't enough for the body's own cells and so they can become vulnerable to immune attack ... locks on to factor H by pretending to be a marker on our own cells. 'It's like the bacteria have stolen someone's coat ...
Side Effect Free Medicines from Cannabis
... which, in fact, do have a whole pharmacology of their own. And that pharmacology seems to include a number of the ... has beneficial effects and pharmacological effects on its own. So in addition to alleviating some of the side ... it produces a whole raft of novel pharmacology in its own right. Chris - If this substance can have ...
Battles Between Bee Sperm
... some of these proteins seem to be able to recognise none-own sperm and kill that sperm off in the female sexual ... Initially, it sounds weird that a liquid can recognise own from non-own or a simple cell like sperm cell will be able to do this, ...
Is There Liquid Water on Mars?
... to try and estimate the distance of Mars from our own home planet. And later in the 1870s, Italian astronomer ... Tunes and Marvin, the Martian, Matt Damon trapped as his own Martian for such a long time, even Doctor Who has been to ... the US's Perseverance Rover, which comes equipped with its own helicopter. The first helicopter that's going to fly ...
David Willetts' speech to the AAAS
... as a fellow by the most esteemed scientists in one’s own country is often the honour they cherish most – and ... effort exceeds that of any other country, including my own. Nevertheless I believe that we have some distinctive British strengths which complement your own. And I am confident that alongside the US, Britain is the ...
Why fungi are your new best friends
... was a trick question. Emily - So actually fungi are their own kingdom. They used to be classified as plants and only actually got their own kingdom in around the 1950s. So way back when we used to ... as a plant. Whereas now we know that they're their own kingdom and actually fungi are more closely related to ...
Catching Up with Cancer
... the latest in Cancer research this week, with our very own Dr Kat bringing us the news from the National Cancer ... us about how disease spreads, and how beetles create their own antibiotics. And in kitchen science, Ben and Dave use the ... us about the origin of AIDS, and how beetles create their own antibiotics. Plus, in kitchen science, Ben and Dave use ...
The Future of our Food
... shoreline can be home to super-efficient farms of their own. We explore the problems faced by our sweet honey bee and ... in Kitchen Science we do some plant modification of our own no transgenics knowledge needed, just food colouring... ... shoreline can be home to super-efficient farms of their own. The Future of our Food ...
Your Immune system vs Cancer
... scientists have begun looking into ways to help the body's own defenses fight back. When have a bacterial or viral ... Birmingham University, about their research on using our own immune systems to fight cancer... Scientists are looking into ways to help your own body fight back against cancer Your Immune system vs ...
Triggering the immune system to attack tumours
... rashes, and organ damage. But if we could trigger our own immune system to target a tumour, then we'd have a way to ... David K. - What we do is we get the body's own defence mechanism, the immune system, to turn its sights ... healthy tissues get hit too. But if we could trigger our own immune system to target a tumour, then we’d have a way ...
Why do some species have thousands of sterile individuals?
... individuals towards the best chance of passing on their own genes directly to the next generation. Obviously, sterile ... related genetically to their mother than we are to our own mothers, because ant genetics work slightly differently. ... becomes a helpless baby factory, unable to care for her own young, find food or even leave the nest in many cases. ...
Angelina Jolie and genetic testing
... the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Now, they own a patent that was granted in the US for that test and ... So, rather than just the test they can sell, they actually own a patent on the gene which can actually prevent people from working on the gene and developing their own tests. So, they have a bit of a monopoly on this ...
What HIV does to us, and how we treat it
... two things from that point. One is it then uses the cells own replication machinery to make copies of itself that then ... we have the memory available. So HIV can use the body's own way of keeping that record alive to keep itself working. ... as a result of the immune response taking out some of your own immune system and there's this sort of tug of war back ...
Mixing Industry and Academia at Diamond
... in Industry access the facilities at Diamond for their own research. Meera – And what kind of Industries do want ... So it might be that companies want to come and do their own research, then they come and so their own experiments much like our academic Users do, but in some ...
Men vs. Women: Spatial ability differences due to nurture?
... Khasi are a matrilineal society - where women inherit and own the land - the Karbi are a patrilineal society - where men inherit and own the land. In the study of spatial ability, 1,600 ... abilities, such as playing sport." In regards to our own society, women make up 50% of the population, but ...
Mythconception: Genetic Inheritance
... the scientific community that’s had one of their own assumptions overturned. Eva Higginbotham has been ... Mitochondria are also special because they have their own DNA that is completely separate from the rest of the ... a mixture of mitochondria doesn't make you sick on its own, it could be that dads are passing down their ...
The Science of Survival
... that each section allows kids and families to make their own decisions about what kind of future they want. On your ... able to see the implications of your choices in your very own neighbourhood for 2050. Meera - Another section here in ... - You say the average person uses 150l and that's on their own individual needs but obviously water is used on larger ...
Cortisol knocks height fear on the head
Scientists have discovered that a dose of one of the body's own stress chemicals can neutralise a fear of heights. ... oral dose of the chemical cortisol, one of the body's own stress hormones produced by the adrenal gland. Following ... have discovered that a dose of one of the body's own stress chemical, cortisol, can neutralise a fear of ...
Water in Another Solar System
... will eventually end up at around 60% of the mass of our own Sun. TW Hydrae is a very well-studied system because ... eventually form into a planetary system not dissimilar our own Solar System. It's interesting to ask how similar to our ... both comets, and eventually wet habitable planets like our own Earth. Our Solar System may not be alone in having an ...
DNA sequencing in the palm of your hand
... has been improved tremendously over the course of your own lifetime. I wouldn’t be surprised if computers came to ... complete human genome, the three billion bases of our own genetic code, were read. This mammoth project required 13 ... to monitor the Zika epidemic in Brazil. The kids had their own ideas: “I would go to the jungle because there’s ...
Fish exchange electrical signals to extend their eyesight
... range of electro location for the fish when it was on its own, was actually clearly visible to the fish when another ... in the brain of the fish related not only to the fish's own pulse, but to the pulse of the nearby fish. So when the fish were on their own, we saw this very limited range. But when we added ...
Nanobots to the Rescue
... of that cell technology to build mini machines of their own. Now we're joined by Professor Tony Ryan from Sheffield ... would this be like proteins that kind of fold under their own steam. They've got the right kind of bonds in them that ... or less extensively synthetic polymers. So we make our own molecules that show some of the features of proteins but ...
Eight weeks of naked
... the notion that I might like to have a go at making my own podcasts and so, when I heard about the internship with ... to the naked scientists forum and planning for your own show. On Sunday evenings The Naked Scientists have a live ... - and you get to meet the studio dalek! Producing my own radio show One of the really exciting parts of the ...
The Human CPU: from Computer Science to Neuroscience.
... root in computer science then. When I left I set up my own computer games company which I'd also programmed some ... was a natural progression for me to do that. I set up my own company in Camden in London and we grew it up to 65-70 ... these end-goals? Chris - You didn't get hooked on your own games, did you? Demis - No. Actually after you've worked ...
From art to artificial reefs
... around the world, his sculptures take on a life of their own as they become engulfed in marine organisms and form ... reefs which leaves them time to regenerate on their own accord. I hope to use the sculptures as a way to ... cast in cement? And do any of them go and visit their own sculpture installed on the seabed? Jason - Yes, a few ...