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Wine drop

Wiping memories to tackle alcoholism

12 Mar 2012

Research into the way memory works could lead to a breakthrough in the treatment of alcoholism. Memories associated with triggering relapse in...

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A nice pint of Tugboat's house red and Punt

Legacies of the legless

25 Oct 2011

How student bingeing gave birth to modern British booze culture.

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Vegetables

Research unit to help encourage healthier habits launched

12 Apr 2011

New research unit to focus on how to change behaviours responsible for the majority of premature deaths worldwide.

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13 - grapes

Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

17 Dec 2009

Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants, but despised by noblemen, during the Middle Ages was the mother...

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