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• United Kingdom

  Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars

  Science & Nature : Research

  Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on 15 June 2008.

• Cornwall

  University and museum to uncover history of mass communication

  Communications : Research : Where To Go : Libraries & Museums

  The University of Exeter and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum have won a prestigious research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to study Britain's leading role in the history of mass communications.

• Plymouth

  Massive Investment in Research in the South West

  Healthcare : Research : Community Health Councils (Nhs) : Health Authorities & Services

  Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust was today celebrating having helped attract £20 million extra research funding to the South West.

• United Kingdom

  Harmful blood glucose levels linked to defective gene

  Genetic Engineering : Medicine : Research

  A genetic mutation that can raise the amount of glucose in a person's blood to harmful levels is identified today in a study in the journal Science.

• United Kingdom

  Causes of disease can be revealed by metabolic fingerprinting

  Research : Health & Fitness

  Your metabolic 'fingerprint' can reveal much about the possible causes of major diseases, according to the first 'metabolome-wide' association study ever carried out, published today in the journal Nature.

• United Kingdom

  Increasing drug resistant tuberculosis in the UK

  Research : Health & Fitness

  Research: Increasing antituberculosis drug resistance in the UK: analysis of national surveillance data BMJ Online First