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Below is a list of recent central Scotland life science related news stories. Click the title to read the full story. Alternatively you can browse through the news archive using the links at the bottom of the page.
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- 22 March 2012: Fruit Flies Get Kidney Stones Too!
Professor Julian Dow at the University of Glasgow, working in collaboration with Professor Michael Romero in the Mayo Clinic in the USA, has shown that fruit flies rapidly and reliably get kidney stones when exposed to certain dietary foods. - 22 March 2012: Bio-Images Group seeks new executive to power up drive for international expansion
Bio-Images Group, a Scottish company which provides drug delivery solutions to the global pharmaceutical and healthcare market, is accelerating its already dynamic drive towards international expansion. - 21 March 2012: Edinburgh City Region Cancer scientists stumble upon key finding
Breakthrough Breast Cancer scientists in Edinburgh have stumbled upon a finding which could be key to understanding how cancer cells grow and spread. - 21 March 2012: Development of new drugs from deep sea organisms to be highlighted at symposium
Pioneering research being conducted in Aberdeen, to develop new medicines for diseases such as cancer, will come under the spotlight today (Wednesday March 21). - 20 March 2012: Sally Magnusson launches Dementia Centre's virtual building design guide
Broadcaster and writer Sally Magnusson officially launched the Dementia Services Development Centre's (DSDC) virtual dementia-friendly home design guide at the University of Stirling on Tuesday 20 March. - 20 March 2012: Glasgow scientists to create drug to kill cancer cells
Scientists from the University of Glasgow are investigating how the blood cancer leukaemia develops in the bone marrow. - 20 March 2012: £3m cystic fibrosis trial begins
Edinburgh researchers are to take part in a groundbreaking gene therapy trial for cystic fibrosis (CF). - 20 March 2012: More speech & language therapy needed for offenders to cut re-offending rates
New university research has highlighted the need for a greater investment in speech and language therapy within Scotland's criminal justice system to help prevent re-offending. - 19 March 2012: Dundee study of oxidative stress attracts £2M European grant
Researchers at the University of Dundee have been awarded over £2M (2.5M Euros) to undertake pioneering work aimed at finding new ways to measure and understand the role of oxidative stress, which is a feature of the onset and progression of numerous acute and chronic human diseases. - 19 March 2012: Arthritis pain killer study recruits 6000th Patient
A Scottish-led large-scale safety study into some of the most widely used medicines has reached a significant milestone by recruiting its 6000th patient volunteer.
