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Body of Evidence
laboratories were restructured to form the Forensic Science Service (FSS). Not everyone agreed with the move. Overnight, a cost had been put on the use of forensic science in the criminal justice system, changing the relationship between the police and...
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Spotlight on: Clinical Trials
women, but caused abnormal limb formation in thousands of their children. Clinical trials can take years to report and cost many millions of pounds, but ultimately they give us confidence that the medicines we take will improve our health, safely. What...
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How to Succeed with Distance Education
edition that targets a mainstream audience, with an appropriate title, would be welcomed. In the meantime, with little cost implication, readers may wish to examine the current version online. Professor Andrew Taylor-Robinson CBiol FSB
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Gains and losses announced in funding decisions for 2015 to 2016
£20m has been added to teaching capital funding. The letter states that savings should 'protect as far as possible high cost subjects (including STEM)' and references the £200m investment in STEM teaching capital over the next two years to ensure...
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Control your Controls
be caused by the perception that new, authenticated products are expensive (more than £50 for an NCTC culture). Yet the cost implications of this oversight can be huge, as are the implications of reporting misleading results or reaching unfounded...
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HPV and Cervical Cancer: Achievements in Prevention and Future Prospects
a cytological screening programme, the dangers of aggressive advertising by drug companies and the debate over whether it is cost effective to vaccinate males. Likewise, policymakers may learn a lesson or two about the introduction of vaccination...
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Common Agriculture Policy
with great success, even creating huge food surpluses in the process (‘beef mountains’ and ‘milk lakes’), but at great cost to the natural environment. Agricultural habitats are very important to biodiversity, and support around half of all species in...
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Bioscience Careers Group
resource list. The guide is available to order online in larger quantities. Boxes of 50 copies can now be ordered at cost price.
