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23 Apr 2015: dementia, and crucially, to test new drugs that halt disease progression.

18 Sep 2015: Although a limited number of previous studies had suggested that this was not possible, the team’s lab-based tests discovered that in certain conditions, GLP-1 can bind to the ... Tests in mice have, however, shown that its levels vary in different

19 Mar 2015: Sir Venki, who is currently Deputy Director of the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology and a Fellow of Trinity College, will take up the post of President on

12 Oct 2015: When the researchers presented the same task to a larger group of 40 healthy people, they found a continuum in task performance that correlated with the participants’ scores on tests of

2 Jun 2015: CITI-SENSE provides a test-bed for both rolling out the new technologies that are coming online and for drawing on the ‘power of the Citizen’ to guide how society responds.”.

6 May 2015: Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary‐General for Policy of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, added: “this report reminds us of the vital role of forests in building food security.

3 Feb 2015: Two of the studentships in the 2016 cohort will be interdisciplinary and co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and NERC.

16 Mar 2015: TB, caused by infection with the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a major global public health problem. According to the World Health Organization, in

7 Dec 2015: Researchers, from the MS Society Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair, identified that the ‘vitamin D receptor’ protein pairs with an existing protein, called

14 Oct 2015: By the time it ended, it had become synonymous with child soldiers, human rights atrocities, landmine victims and blood diamond economics.

10 Jul 2015: In addition, after further work, it may be possible to use this technique to test how well new medicines perform at preventing the development of atherosclerosis.”.

18 Dec 2015: The best way to test how well stem cells would incorporate into the body is to transplant them into an early-stage embryo and see how they develop. ... The gold standard test, developed in Cambridge in the 1980s, involves putting the stem cells into a

23 Jul 2015: To test whether these stress-hormone induced differences in social network positions affected who learned from whom, Boogert devised a food puzzle for the birds, and recorded exactly when each bird ... In the new test, the birds had to learn to flip the

2 Nov 2015: What this data instead shows is that these GCSEs test different levels of skills, some of which may be more readily acquired in a lower number of contact hours and some

25 Nov 2015: Even with 20/20 vision in broad daylight on a clear day, our peripheral vision can be surprisingly poor, particularly when the scene in front of us is

30 Sep 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. Dr Zoe Jaques (Faculty of Education) is a lecturer in children’s literature. Her research spans

29 Jun 2015: the planet as purely an economic issue about how we use these commodities is a limiting vision. ... Natural capital has features that most commodities around which we build economic modelling – such as infrastructure, or the products of industrial

10 Jun 2015: New research using high-speed gambling experiments shows that, for most of us, the last experience we’ve had can be the defining one when it comes to taking a

4 Sep 2015: In a study published today in the open access International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, researchers also found that pupils doing an

22 Jul 2015: These observations have enabled us to test with unprecedented detail theories of galaxy formation in the early Universe.”. ... Finally to be able to test predictions and hypotheses on real data from ALMA is an exciting moment and opens up a new set of