Do these genes make me look fat?

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Chemist and Nobel Laureate Sir John Walker is looking at how genes and molecules affect human metabolism. He has been studying ATP synthase which may be linked to obesity and mitochondrial DNA which may be one reason the human body goes through the ageing process. When Walker was recruited as the director of the Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, England, some scientists mistakenly felt his interest in the molecular level of chemistry would have a negative impact on research into nutrition at the centre. Walker plans to have 100 people working in the newly built Dunn building.

Behavior, Chemists, Laboratories, Lindh, John Walker, Dunn Human Nutrition Unit

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Pharaohs and the flea

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On excavating a 3,300-year-old village in the Egyptian desert south of Cairo, Sheffield University postdoctoral fellow Eva Panagiotakopulu and her colleagues discovered the dessicated remains of 35 fleas. The scientists believe that their discovery is the earliest historical evidence of human fleas.

Egypt, Insects, Excavations (Archaeology), Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc., Abandoned settlements, Fleas

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May blooms in tricky places

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Sir Robert May, the government's chief scientific adviser, will become the president of the Royal Society in November 2000. He wants the society to continue its progress to being more inclusive and the voice of UK science.

Interview, Associations, Science, Scientists, Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, May, Robert

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