Prostate cancer drug is currently available through the Cancer Drugs Fund, but funding issues mean patients could either have to buy it themselves or take out health insurance Men in England with late-stage prostate cancer could soon be stopped from accessing and #34;breakthrough and #34; drug abiraterone unless they can afford to buy the drug themselves or pay for private medical insurance. Trials of …

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Because instead of talking about what they know, some people talk about the questions that they ponder Remember last year and #39;s online Google Science Fair’ Well, hold on to your hats because they and #39;re doing it again this year! In partnership with CERN, Lego, National Geographic and Scientific American, Google has announced their second online science fair. This is the largest global online science …

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Hubble has captured an incredibly sharp view of the heart of a galaxy just like ours – showing the and #39;bar and #39; of glowing gas being pulled towards the black hole at the galaxy and #39;s centre.

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Northern Ireland and #39;s bowel cancer screening programme is to be extended with more people being targeted across all of the health trusts.

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Astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. Hubble and #39;s view of the distant background galaxy, which lies nearly 10 billion light-years away, is significantly more detailed than could ever be achieved without the help of the gravitational lens.

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Alzheimer’s appears to spread through the brain like poison in a river, according to a study that and #39;s the first to track the destruction caused by an abnormal protein implicated in the disease.

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Scientists analyzing the release of genetically modified insects into the environment have found that access to accurate scientific information can be misleading.

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Doctors at a Southern California clinic have announced that they are “licensed and trained” to perform a stem cell treatment pioneered by a Colorado group that is being sued by the U.S. Justice Department and Food and Drug Administration.

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A new species of prehistoric crocodile has been discovered. The extinct creature, nicknamed and #34;Shieldcroc and #34; due to a thick-skinned shield on its head, is an ancestor of today and #39;s crocodiles.

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The UN and #39;s new sustainable development report fails to deliver on the big questions. Would greater intellectual liberation help’ After working for a year and a half on and #34;a new vision for sustainable growth and prosperity and #34; for the world, the UN and #39;s high-level panel on global sustainability presented its report on Monday. It is notable less for what it says than for who says it: current and former …

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Fair marks the second time Obama has invited STEM students to the White House.

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Recycle Your Wig idea extended to children

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Architect Williams Thornton, most famous for designing the US Capitol, thought his procedure could bring America and #39;s first president back to life after his death in December 1799.

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The discovery of the deepest known and #34; black smoker and #34; vents has revealed eyeless shrimps and white tentacled anemones living 3.1 miles below the surface in a Caribbean rift.

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New anti-cancer research has led to the development of a novel class of chemical inhibitors that specifically target cancer cells with pluripotency.

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Embedded in the forests of the South American country of Suriname, they are among 46 species discovered by scientists on a three-week expedition in 2010.

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Why do obese people get cancer more often’ How can some turtles live more than a century without ever developing tumors while mice can develop them in a year’ Could treatments that hold tumor cells in check without destroying them keep people alive longer’

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MEXICO CITY Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at odds over the severity of this season and #39;s flu virus. Newspapers are warning of an alarming increase in cases while the government insists there is no cause for alarm.

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Cancer treatments designed to block the growth of blood vessels were found to increase the number of cancer stem cells in breast tumors in mice, suggesting a possible explanation for why these drugs don’t lead to longer survival, according to a new study.

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A pioneering head of ICT shares some fantastic routes into teaching children code and computing When the Guardian Teacher Network asked me to exclusively reveal a list of my top 10 resources I found it really hard to narrow my choice down to just 10. But here it is – and if you think I have left any out then please do comment on the blog and add your suggestions or send me a message through …

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Success, without side effects, will allow human research to continue.

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THE diabetes and endocrinology unit at the Royal Surrey County Hospital will close down in April.

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A three year feeding study has shown no adverse health effects in pigs fed genetically modified (GM) maize. The maize, which is a Bt-maize bred for its insect resistant properties, was sourced from Spain.

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Three-week research expedition to Suriname documents 1,300 species, including 46 believed to be new to science.

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Medicines to prevent people developing Alzheimer’s disease could be available within 10 years, if the UK invests in new research.

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and #39;There and #39;s a long way to go before there and #39;s talk about miracle treatments and #39;

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Science is all about discovery. It and #39;s about learning how the world works, and why, and connecting empirical data to a better understanding of the world we live in. It and #39;s about questioning hypotheses and building conclusions.

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Early results from the world and #39;s first human trial using embryonic stem cells to treat diseases of the eye suggest the method is safe, say researchers.

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A diagnosis of cancer doesn’t necessarily deter some from giving up their smoking habits

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The Festival International de Jazz de MontrA(C)al is proud to present its approach to sustainable development, now available in a new section of the Festival and #39;s website dedicated to its green endeavors (About the Festival section). Since the very first editions of the Festival International de Jazz de MontrA(C)al in the early 1980s, organizers have shown a deep respect for social and …

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Three Aberdeen cancer research projects are awarded more than £200,000 by a local charity.

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Lost fossils collected by naturalist Charles Darwin 165 years ago have been found inside an old cabinet.

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Diet plays a big part in obesity, which is in turn a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes. But despite the plump Southern chef and #39;s diagnosis, experts say there and #39;s more to it than just overeating

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Bayer AG (BAYN) said its cancer medicine regorafenib improved survival for people with advanced colon cancer by 29 percent, fleshing out details of a trial halted last year in order to give all the participants the new drug.

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British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.

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Women are being treated unnecessarily for breast cancer due to mammograms and #34;over-diagnosing and #34; cancers, which would never cause harm, according to an Australian report

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An ambitious campaign has been launched to raise £1m to support women who have been diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer and to raise awareness of the disease.

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Scientists say they have uncovered new evidence which it is hoped could eventually help diagnose and prevent type 1 diabetes.

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Does the Chavez theory about a US cancer weapon stack up’

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Researchers have identified key molecular mechanisms by which implanted human neural stem cells aid recovery from traumatic axonal injury.

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The warning comes from GM critics and is based on the release of details from a study commissioned by the company involved, Oxitec.

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A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other giant galaxy in the local group.

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Geron Corp. (GERN) hired Stifel Nicolaus and Co. to sell its embryonic stem cell therapy, the first approved in the U.S., as the company changes focus to cancer drugs, Chief Executive Officer John Scarlett said.

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A retired science teacher has failed in his bid to overturn his conviction for harassing a church vicar.

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Diabetes may be more than a hazard to health. A new study shows that young adults with the disease have lower lifetime earnings and fewer job prospects than their peers.

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An estimated 12 million people in the United States have cancer, but a new report by the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that we are continuing to make strides in the fight against the devastating disease.  

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A newly discovered snake has been named after a 7-year-old girl, but don and #39;t ask where it lives – the viper is in hiding for its own good

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Nicotine patches won’t help you stub out a smoking habit but could stave off Alzheimer’s, it was claimed yesterday.

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Genetic clues suggest pure-bred members of the chelonoidis elephantopus species of tortoise have recently interbred with some of their cousins on the Galapagos Islands.

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Researchers refute claims by Greenpeace Germany that the western bean cutworm is “a new plant pest” that was “caused by genetically engineered corn.” The Greenpeace Germany report offers a “surprisingly simplistic conclusion” regarding the spread of western bean cutworm over the last decade, according to researchers.

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