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Bats: Friend or Foe?
Plants & Animals

Bats: Friend or Foe?

Bats often suffer from a negative public image, condemned as flying vermin and carriers of disease but they are critical...
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The Cheetah: One of Nature’s Great Survivors
Plants & Animals

The Cheetah: One of Nature’s Great Survivors

The African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the world’s fastest land mammal. It has numerous physiological adaptations that allow it to...
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Bed Bug Genome Sequenced in a Bid to Fight Back Against this Pest
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Bed Bug Genome Sequenced in a Bid to Fight Back Against this Pest

The bed bug genome is one of the many arthropod genomes to be sequenced in the i5K project. The i5K...
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Grey Squirrel Invasion Given A Helping Hand By Humans
Plants & Animals

Grey Squirrel Invasion Given A Helping Hand By Humans

Native to the eastern half of North America, grey squirrels were first introduced to Britain in the 1870s and are...
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UK Approves First Studies of Gene Editing on Human Embryos
Human

UK Approves First Studies of Gene Editing on Human Embryos

The UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority (HFEA) has given its approval for studies using the gene-editing technique CRISPR to...
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Dino reality or just fantasy?
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Dino reality or just fantasy?

Jurassic World has taken the world by storm, breaking all box office records in the process. But is it actually...
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Screening for cancer: too much or too little?
Genetic Disease

Screening for cancer: too much or too little?

The debate about cancer screening has again been in the news with the disconnect between the prevalence of cervical cancer...
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A mother’s curse…
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A mother’s curse…

Each cell of the body contains tiny engines which generate energy; these are called the mitochondria and they are essential...
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