By nature.com Communities Team on 28 Oct 2011
The very first London Science Festival took place from last week and we attended several of the events. On Friday night we went to the Museum of Life Sciences at the Gordon Museum, Kings College London, for an exhibition on the mechanisms of evolution. Check our coverage to see some of the weird specimens on display: … Read more
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By Laura Wheeler on 26 Oct 2011
The very first London Science Festival has been taking place since last week and on Tuesday night we attended the Science Question Time event at King’s College London where discussion was focused on the future of drugs. Read more
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By Laura Wheeler on 21 Oct 2011
The inaugural London Science Festival taking place this week and next, has compiled a diverse program of sciencey entertainment that makes the most of different communication formats. Reminiscent of the World Science festival that we attended earlier this year, there are lectures and museum-based events but also creative use of theatre and film. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 20 Oct 2011
Nasty Worms and a Dog’s first Vet Visit – Having a cute pet dog is not all fun and games, reveals Paige Brown. You need to be cautious that your pet isn’t harbouring something sinister…. Think again. Dogs can become infected with heartworms, hookworms, roundworms and whipworms, among others. Some hookworms and roundworms can be contracted by not only your dog, but also you and your family members, according to my ‘Congratulations on your new puppy!’ brochure. Scary thought. Now onto the health of humans. This week, our Boston blogger Tinker Ready attended a lecture by Harvard’s Walter Willett (who, … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 20 Oct 2011
This post is also mirrored on our London blog. Stay tuned for more coverage of this year’s London Science Festival and to whet your appetite, make sure you check out our science festival blogging extravaganza and our map of the World’s Science festivals. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 18 Oct 2011
There’s always an interesting science event taking place, or so it seems, and as more and more events are now being live-streamed or live-tweeted, you can often also follow events in places where you don’t live. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 14 Oct 2011
Lindau – it’s a wrap Interviews with Nobel Prize winners can’t fail to be interesting and over the last few weeks we have been bringing to your attention a collection of Nature Videos capturing some of the unique discussions between Nobel Laureates and students. These personal mentoring sessions are at the heart of the Lindau experience, where young scientific minds can question the already accomplished. Nature Video filmed these sessions and has been releasing a new video each week, giving us a glimpse into these exclusive conversations. This week, tying in with a Nature Outlook special, Nature Video released the … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 13 Oct 2011
Lindu wrap This year’s meeting of Nobel Laureates was dedicated to Physiology and Medicine, as 24 Nobel Laureates gathered on the picturesque island of Lindau, ready to respond to the eager questions from early career scientists. Set on Lake Constance, the meeting provided a rare chance for selected young scientists to meet with Nobel Laureates for a gathering of plenary discussions and informal conversations. Throughout this year’s Lindau conference, there was detailed blogging coverage on Nature Network as we brought to you a full week of Lindau reporting, linking out to all of the blogs, talks, discussions and Storifys collating … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 07 Oct 2011
Stem cells The Spoonful of Medicine Blog this week reported that researchers in New York have succeeded where the disgraced South Korean Hwang Woo-suk failed. They have successfully derived the world’s first stem cells from a cloned human embryo. But, notably, the new stem cells are not suitable for therapeutic use because they contain three sets of chromosomes, instead of the regular two: In work published today in Nature, a team led by Dieter Egli at the New York Stem Cell Foundation took skin cells from healthy and diabetic volunteers and inserted the cells’ nuclei into unfertilized human eggs. Within … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 04 Oct 2011
Faster than the speed of light? Do you want to know what scientists really think about neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light? A must for this week is to check out the Nature News Podcast. You can also find out how to measure happiness, how food puts flies in the mood for love, as well as how to improve clinical trials and get more drugs to market: Immunity and the world’s most expensive drug This week, in the first of a two part installment, Kausik Datta has been explaining to his readers what Dendritic cells are, and their role in supporting the … Read more
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