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Breach of the Peace
or remote access may be limited and require pilots to be on board for the duration of a journey, therefore increasing cost. Policing or monitoring compliance with such measures is likely to prove more challenging in such remote areas and will probably...
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Genomics & Personalized Medicine: What everyone needs to know
and refrains from talking about the oft-predicted shifting of medical paradigms. That being said, the dramatically falling costs of DNA analysis and the proliferation of smart watches and Fitbits do mean that we are on a threshold of sorts, and this...
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Can we fix it?
nitrogen to the plant, largely freeing them from the need for man-made fertilisers. This saves the high financial cost and environmental degradation associated with fertiliser use and means legumes can grow in less fertile soil conditions. Following a...
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It's time for rational regulation
to ensure that genome editing is used to support sustainable agriculture. In fact, it will probably do the opposite – the cost of current regulatory approvals mean that they are restricted to the largest agribusinesses. Humanitarian projects are...
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Scratching the surface
Therefore, it will be imperative to use a microbial strain that gives high yields in short fermentation runs. The final cost of the product will be the determining factor in whether biosurfactants become common components of consumer products. Potential...
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Resistance fighters
by a pesticide, these will be selected against and hence be rare or only sporadically present in the wild. The fitness cost, and the consequent abundance of a resistance mutation when a pesticide is first introduced, likely contribute to the rate of...
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Engineering with algae
pH. They are, in effect, environmentally friendly, self-assembling 3D nanoprinters that can be grown en masse at very low cost. "There are now more than 100,000 papers on diatoms, and the number is doubling every 10 years," says Richard Gordon, a...
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50 Ideas you really need to know: Chemistry
of this book is the absence of colour. I know authors have to balance use of colour in diagrams and photographs with cost, but there are times when black-and-white representations, unless really well done, do not convey the clarity sought. If future...
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Concern that TEF strategy will not improve situation for teachers and students
main points. Whilst it is important that tuition fees are allowed to rise with inflation to reduce gaps in income and cost, there was strong objection to linking increased levels of perceived ‘teaching quality’ with increased tuition fees. The sector...
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
pain and heavy burden that one decision, no matter how seemingly rational or routine, might bring. It is this human cost which Marsh reveals, writing frankly of his own struggles – self-importance, demoralisation, marital breakdown – and medical...
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Staring death in the face
the bodies very soft, flexible and lifelike for practising surgery. The university said I needed toraise half of the £2m cost myself. How do you persuade anyone to give you money for a mortuary? You can't rattle a bucket outside the shops. So I decided...
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Being Mortal
No one will be able to read Being Mortal without being affected. Modern medicine has increased life expectancy, but at what cost to the individual? By combining professional and personal experience, Being Mortal tackles this most sensitive topic in an...
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Staring death in the face
the bodies very soft, flexible and lifelike for practising surgery. The university said I needed toraise half of the £2m cost myself. How do you persuade anyone to give you money for a mortuary? You can't rattle a bucket outside the shops. So I decided...
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Jonathan Montgomery: How do we decide what science should and shouldn’t do?
understood, I imagine it will become easier. If you can sequence and create genetic structures synthetically, it changes the cost of doing things significantly. You can see that the world will look very different not so long into the future. How have...
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Britain’s invasive species: Good, bad, or ugly?
down and predict future invasions, and whether invasions are ever a good thing. “Invasive alien species are estimated to cost the UK economy £1.7 billion a year and pose a major threat to biodiversity”, explained Professor Roy, President of the British...
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Boxing Clever
take photographs through the microscope. Digital photography has had a huge impact here, as it allows experimentation at low cost. Insects Many smaller insects lend themselves to mounting on slides, including beetles mounted dry, in addition to cleared...
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Trials of a sperm
on the mechanisms of sperm transport and sperm selection in birds. References 1) Pitnick, S. Investment in testes and the cost of making long sperm in Drosophila. Amer. Nat. 148, 57–80 (1996). 2) Bakst, M. R. et al. Oviducal sperm selection, transport...
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Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science
as well as charts and diagrams of his, and related, work. Well written, thoroughly researched and extremely readable, the cost represents good value for money and Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science deserves a place on all good library shelves. It is...
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The Silk Route
spidroins. Transgenic tobacco and potato plants have enabled researchers to harvest large quantities of spidroins at low cost. Researchers successfully expressed spidroins of 100 kDa in tobacco and potato plants, at a concentrationof 0.5% of the total...
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Spotlight on: Parasitology
what attracted you to parasitology? Absolutely. It's about taking the technology we have here in the West and making it cost effective and simple enough to use in an endemic setting. How did you get to where you are now? My PhD was developing molecular...
