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How bacteria adapt to human hosts

May 20, 2013 in Natural Sciences

Researchers have mapped how bacteria go from living in topsoil to living in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients.
Seven new genetic causes of obesity identified

May 6, 2013 in Health

A comprehensive research project has discovered seven new flaws in the human genome that may cause obesity.
Mathematician discovers possible diabetes cure

May 5, 2013 in Health

A new mathematical analysis reveals that a simple boost of the immune system may cure type 1 diabetes. Swedish research confirms the mathematical calculations.
Overlooked life on seabed gorges on fish faeces

May 2, 2013 in Natural Sciences

Bacteria are not the only organisms that feed on dead plankton and fish faeces. The so-called ‘archaea’ also play an important – and hitherto overlooked – role in carbon cycling in the seabed.
MRSA: scientists on trail of antibiotic resistance

April 19, 2013 in Natural Sciences

Whole genome sequencing allows researchers to monitor how resistant bacteria travel from humans to humans, animals to humans and from humans to animals.
Plant sap is twice as sweet as cola

April 12, 2013 in Agriculture & Fisheries

A new study has looked at how sweet plant juice needs to be to give the plant the optimal energy yield. Ideally, it should be twice as sweet as cola.
Butterflies fly 3,500 km by compass

April 10, 2013 in Natural Sciences

Monarch butterflies fly from Canada to Mexico using only an internal compass and the landscape to guide them. Now researchers can explain how.
New centre to unravel mystery of solar energy storage

April 9, 2013 in Environment

A new research centre has been given five years to develop new techniques for storing solar energy.
Bacteria thrive at the bottom of the Mariana Trench

March 21, 2013 in Natural Sciences

Scientists have found bacteria in one of the world’s most hostile and extreme environments 11 km below sea level.
Why exercise gets on your nerves

March 20, 2013 in Health

It’s not only the muscles that experience fatigue during exercise. It happens to our nerve cells too. New study uncovers the dual role of serotonin.