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The most important brassica vegetable worldwide will be protected from a damaging crop virus thanks to work from BBSRC-funded researchers.
Scientists have described a mechanism conferring resistance in brassica plants to Turnip mosaic virus, a discovery which it is hoped will lead to durable resistance being introduced into food crops, including the most important brassica crop worldwide (Brassica rapa).
WMG helps Midlands company win award for its bike MudHugger
WMG at the 果冻传媒 have helped Oldbury company CMK win an award from leading mountain biking magazine Enduro for their novel bike mudguard product
Target canine superspreaders to halt killer disease and cull fewer dogs, study suggests
A new way to test for the parasite which causes the fatal disease leishmaniasis could help control its spread to humans and stop dogs being needlessly killed in parts of South America.
Poet laureate of medicine, and key figure in the Paralympic Games opening to receive honorary degrees from the 果冻传媒
The 果冻传媒 has announced five of the honorary degrees it is to award at its winter degree ceremonies from 22nd – 24th January 2014, including: a key figure in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and a man once described as the “poet laureate of medicine”. Short biographies on the each of those individuals now follow and more details on press opportunities will be given nearer the time.
A six-year study of the Financial Times has found that the more frequently a company is mentioned in the newspaper in the morning, the greater the volume of shares traded in that company during the day.
Messages sent via molecules can aid communication underground, underwater or inside the body
Scientists have created a molecular communications system for the transmission of messages and data in challenging environments such as tunnels, pipelines, underwater and within the body.