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Election to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
George Salmond has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in recognition of his research contributions in several areas of molecular microbiology, including bacterial quorum sensing, antibiotics and virulence. There are 46 new UK and International Fellows elected to the RSE in 2012, to add to the 1500-strong Fellowship. The Fellowship of the Society covers science, arts, humanities, the professions, industry and commerce. |
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Brain cells created from patients’ skin cells
Research paves way for innovative techniques to explore disease as diverse as autism and Alzheimer’s.
Dr Rick Livesey of the Gurdon Institute and Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, principal investigator of the research, said: “This approach gives us the ability to study human brain development and disease in ways that were unimaginable even five years ago.” |
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Breeding better grasses for food and fuel
Prof. Paul Dupree and co-workers from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) have discovered a family of genes that could help us breed grasses with improved properties for diet and bioenergy. PNAS January 17, 2012 vol. 109 no. 3 989-993 |
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Prof. Peter Leadlay has been awarded the Inhoffen Medal by the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. The award and the associated Inhoffen Lecture will take place at the Technical University Braunschweig in May 2012. The Inhoffen Medal is awarded to outstanding scientists in the field of chemistry and biology of natural products. It is named in honour of the distinguished natural products chemist Hans Herloff Inhoffen (1906-1992) whose work contributed, for example, to the development of oral contraceptives. |
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