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Cracking old cheese please, Gromit
Ancient pottery shards show that cheese making began in the Neolithic in what is now Poland
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BP shifting ethanol focus to Brazil
Company to invest $350 million to expand production from sugarcane in Brazil
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Seeing the helix of DNA
Transmission electron microscope image shows direct visualisation of DNA bundle
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Worried about food allergens? There's an app for that
A mobile phone app, that scientists are calling iTube, can be used to detect allergens in food samples
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EU companies increasing R&D
Difficult economic climate has not diminished EU enthusiasm for R&D
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Pfizer's lost gold
A stash of gold dust bought for $700,000 last year has gone missing from a Pfizer lab in St Louis, Missouri, US
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Platinum plating at the flick of a switch
A quick and simple way to create catalytic atom thick layers of platinum has been developed by US scientists
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Spray and peel forensic sampling
Lift-off strippable coatings can help analyse surface residues
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Bactericides reach new depths
Bismuth–antibody nanoparticles to target bacteria deep in a wound
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Striped nanoparticle controversy blows up
Arguments centre over whether nano-structures are a result of self-assembly or simply an experimental artefact
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Curiosity detect hints of complex organics
Mars rover picks up chlorinated hydrocarbons on the Red Planet, but are they native or did they hitch a ride?
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Mango and Zara sign up to 'detox' plan
Greenpeace campaign to remove hazardous chemicals from the clothing industry is garnering big name support
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Stopping endocrine disruptors in their tracks
A testing protocol has been created to help design new chemicals that won’t interfere with hormone regulation
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Chemists crack fluoroform challenge
An industrial waste product from the production of Teflon and refrigerants can now be turned into agrichemicals and drugs
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Return on drug R&D dropping
The pharma industry is getting less and less return on investment in R&D but trend seems to be bottoming out
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Baxter to pay $4bn for dialysis firm
Gambro makes products for hemodialysis and continuous renal replacement therapy
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FOI exemptions for unpublished research
UK government agrees to amend the Freedom of Information Act so that universities are not compelled to release unpublished data
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Autumn statement science boost to offset cuts
Extra £600 million announced for research infrastructure
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We don’t need no intuition
Crystal structures have been solved computationally with little human guidance in a development set to shake the crystallography community
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Safer blood clotting agents for open wounds
Silica-based foams are less toxic than clays when used as agents to stem blood flow