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Vegetables in whole food market.

The future of food: your chance to ask the experts

04 Jul 2011

How can we feed the world’s expanding population? Should we be using GM technologies more to boost the yield of our crops? How will global warming...

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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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baby in the womb

You are what your mother ate

21 Mar 2011

Research provides new insight into why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring’s long term health.

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February is American Heart Month

Scientists find "missing link" between heart failure and environment

13 Jan 2010

Scientists have found what they believe is the missing link between heart failure, our genes and our environment. The study could open up completely...

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Poppy the rat says hello

High-fat diet affects physical and memory abilities

13 Aug 2009

Rats fed a high-fat diet show a stark reduction in their physical endurance and a decline in their cognitive ability after just nine days, a new...

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Kyung Chae Jeong, National Cancer Center, South Korea

Cancer Research UK

01 May 2009

Cancer Research UK is the world's leading independent charity dedicated to cancer research, spending around £300 million a year on world-class...

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Descendant of the apple tree

Economic and Social Research Council

01 Jan 2009

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) supports research from across the social sciences, from sociology to anthropology, through to...

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Temporal Artery Aneurysm

Anti-ageing for arteries

26 Sep 2008

New research has revealed that statins can prevent the premature ageing of arteries in patients in the advanced stages of heart disease - suggesting...

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IMS- Institute of Metabolic Science

Translating research into healthy lives

01 May 2008

MRC-supported initiatives on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus aim to combat health problems linked with obesity and lifestyle.

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Uncertainty

Living with uncertainty

01 May 2008

Assessing the chance of something happening or not happening confronts us all the time. A new programme led by David Spiegelhalter, the Winton...

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Type 1 diabetes and Crohn's disease genes identified

07 Jun 2007

A major collaboration of UK scientists has provided an insight into the genetics underlying a number of diseases including Crohn's disease, a type of...

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Anything on the hearth tonight, love?

13 Apr 2007

A new study suggests the TV dinner is the evolutionary next step in the history of dining.

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