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Cecilia Grimaldi9th April 2021 It is an old question but that does not make it any less relevant: does size...
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First, thousands of soft tissue fossils have been discovered along a riverbank in China. Dating back to the Cambrian period,...
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First up, the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is approaching 1000 cases, generating fear that the...
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First up, researchers have found a way to curb the bloodthirstiness of mosquitoes with drugs that trick them into feeling...
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“I think we are really living a revolution” said Dr Nadia Guerra, head of Imperial’s Inflammation and Tumour Immunity lab....
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A new study has explored the mechanical interactions that breast cancer cells have with their microenvironment. This has important implications...
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“Women’s bodies are born with a fixed number of eggs”. So goes the accepted theory, which is understood to be...
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HPV infographic HPV is one of the most dangerous sexually transmitted infections for a number of reasons. The Human Papillomavirus...
What can your DNA tell you about your risk of developing cancer? What could it reveal about the best way...
Is it possible to light up a cancer cell in the brain? Could scorpion venom be the answer? Dr Jim...
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2014 is likely to be remembered as the year of Ebola. From the first case in March 2014, we all...
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The hole in the ozone layer, 2010 “MASSIVE ozone hole will increase CANCER rates”, blares the Daily Mail. “No-zone!” screams...
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A leading research group at Imperial College London has developed an ‘intelligent’ knife (iKnife) for use in cancer surgery. This...
Feed your curiosity at the Wellcome Collection's daytime discussions. Drop in to hear local scientists in conversation about their latest experiments,...
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I’m a big fan of the brain. The three books I most recently read were about the brain (no, really)....
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DNA that is methylated in the central cytosine molecules The field of epigenetics has exploded in the last 15 years....
Feed your curiosity at our daytime discussions. Drop in to hear local scientists in conversation about their latest experiments, life...
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Angelina Chrysanthou backs sugar Sugar is one of the oldest cooking ingredients, dating back to 326 BC. Since then it...
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The potato: worldwide production of 45.4 tonnes per hectare in 2012, two thirds of which is eaten directly by humans....
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Themes of the last fortnight have been medical money spinners, more stem cell controversy and Doctors 2.0. Medical money spinners...
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It is clear from recent trends that science is heading towards a more ‘open’ future. However there has always been...
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More and more scientists are starting to approach aging as a 'disease' that can be 'cured'. Can this be done?...
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We are constantly reminded of the looming, ominous and terrible prospect of cancer. Just sitting on the underground you are...
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As far as Claire Guest was concerned, Tuesday was set to be a normal day. It was only when she...
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We’ve zapped it. We’ve blocked hormones. We’ve chopped it out. We’ve hit it hard with toxic chemicals. We’ve even used...
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There is no doubt that smoking is harmful. Tobacco is thought to kill nearly 6 million people every year, but...
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A doctor in Texas believes he can cure cancer. And a lot of cancer-sufferers believe he can too. Last week...
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TEDMEDLive Imperial College is an independently-organised showcase of talks from medical researchers taking place on 21 April 2013. It will...
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What do HG Wells’s Invisible Man, Spider-Man’s foe The Lizard and Sir Isaac Newton all have in common? Despite sounding...
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Scientists In the Pub series: I, Science's Andy Roast chats with Imperial researchers about their latest work. In episode 1...
