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Popular lake balls under threat
Algae are not what immediately spring to mind when people think of threatened species. But even among algae there are species that have a difficult time, such as ‘Aegagropila linnaei’. In the magazine BioScience Christian Bödeker describes the worldwide decline of this species. He calls for the species to be protected.
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Symposium by Lorentz Fellow Richard Gill
On 22 March, five days after his final attendance at the Lucia de B case, Professor of Statistics, Richard Gill, will be appointed Distinguished Lorentz Fellow 2010-2011. To mark the award, Gill is organising a breakfast symposium on the relationship between the media, science and law.
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Horseshoe-shaped 'Parkinson's' proteins form clumps
More news has come to light about the alpha-Synuclein protein that plays an important role in Parkinson's disease. Biophysicist Martina Huber and colleagues show how these proteins clump together when they come into contact with a membrane. Their article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) is now online.
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