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Scientists can cut greenhouse gases
25th April 2008, The Journal, UK
Newcastle University scientists have developed a process which turns waste carbon dioxide into a useful chemical.
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Mutation implicated in eczema
24th April 2008, Times Higher, UK
Newcastle University scientists have found a gene mutation that is a factor in the cause of eczema in children.
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The complete University guide
24th April 2008, The Independent, supplement, UK
League table of universities placing Newcastle 27th overall and in top 20 for many individual subjects. Top-rated is Art & Design (3rd).
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Pushing boat out for Tyne oarsmen
23rd April 2008, The Journal, UK
Members of Newcastle University Boat Club have helped launch an exhibition of rowing memorabilia at the Discovery Museum. (No url, but see exhibition website.)
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Old factory is blamed for contaminated riverside area
22nd April 2008, Evening Chronicle, UK
Tanja Pless-Mulloli, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, comments as a member of the team assessing the site contamination.
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Kidney family call on ambassador
22nd April 2008, BBC Online, UK
Professor John Burn, head of Newcastle University's Institute of Human Genetics, is meeting the Greek ambassador to assist in a missing kidney case.
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Better way to detect cancer
21st April 2008, Evening Chronicle, UK
Prof Tom Lennard, Newcastle University, is working with colleagues at Northumbria to develop 3D body scans.
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Hope brought to sufferers of digestive system disease
21st April 2008, Evening Chronicle, UK
Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are spearheading national research into genetic factors which may increase susceptibility to Crohn's disease.
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Be alert to sunbed dangers
21st April 2008, Edinburgh Evening News, UK
Concerns about sunbeds and skin cancer, citing a recent study by Newcastle University which found that about 100 people in the UK die each year as a direct result of sunbed use.
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Catching corals' spectacular moment
20th April 2008, BBC Online, UK
One way of halting the decline of coral reefs is described in this article which mentions work done by Newcastle researcher James Guest.
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