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Fight to release jailed professor
Authors Gillespie, Fulton Source Cambridge Evening News, 28 August 1993 Year 1993

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Subject An international campaign to free jailed Cambridge professor Jean-Pierre Allain is being mounted by a high-powered lobby of scientists Keywords Jean-Pierre Allain; HIV; Max Perutz
Getting blood out of a test tube
Authors Nagai, Kiyoshi Source MRC News 58: 12-14, Spring 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Safe artificial haemoglobin could soon be flowing in patients' veins, thanks to a collaboration between MRC Scientists and industry Keywords Giulio Fermi; Moboru Komiyama; Kiyoshi Nagai; Max Perutz; Somatogen (US Corporation); Gary Stetler (Somatogen); Hans Christian Thogersen
Glittering prizes … Scientific discovery began in shed
Authors Gillespie, Fulton Source Cambridge Evening News, 9 June 1993 Year 1993

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Subject A simple plaque to mark the discovery of the double helix of DNA is being unveiled in Cambridge. The News looks back on the discovery Keywords Biochemistry Laboratory; Lawrence Bragg; Sydney Brenner; Cavendish Laboratory; Francis Crick; Harold Himsworth; Hugh Huxley; John Kendrew; Aaron Klug; Cesar Milstein; Kiyoshi Nagai; The Queen; Hilary & Tensing; Max Perutz; Fred Sanger; Jim Watson; Greg Winter
'Grass' from your doc on way
Authors Evening Times Source Evening Times, 2 September 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Cannabis which does not go to your head may one day be prescribed as a medicine Keywords Cannabis; THC; [Sean Munro]
How cannabis might heal the body
Authors New Scientist Source New Scientist, 4 September 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Mounting evidence that the human body makes its own cannabis-like substance has forced researchers to look more seriously at the drug Keywords Anandamide; Cannabis; Sean Munro; THC
Hunters of the double helix – 40 years on
Authors Connor, Steve & Wilkie, Tom Source The Independent on Sunday, 25 April 1993 Year 1993

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Subject The story of DNA and the team of scientists that revealed its structure Keywords Cavendish Laboratory; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Francis Crick; Einstein; Rosalind Franklin; King's College, London; Linus Pauling; Salk Institute; US Human Genome Project; James Watson; Maurice Wilkins
Independent move for research institute
Authors Cambridge Evening News Source Cambridge Evening News, 9 April 1993 Year 1993

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Subject The Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research at Babraham has become an independent institute Keywords Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC); The Babraham Institute; Richard Dyer; Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research; Roslin, Edinburgh
Nobel winner appeals to Prime Minister
Authors Cambridge Evening News Source Cambridge Evening News, 18 October 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Dr Max Perutz has appealed to Prime Minister John Major to save medical research from the crippling effects of the NHS market Keywords John Major; Max Perutz; Keith Peters
Opening the gateway
Authors Klug, A Source Nature 365: 486-487, 7 October 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Understanding the mechanism of the initiation of transcription. News and views on Nature papers Keywords S. K. Burley (Rockefeller); J. L. Kim (Rockefeller); Y. Kim (Yale); R. D. Kornberg; P. B. Sigler (Yale); R. G. Roeder
Prize work on genetics
Authors Cambridge Evening News Source Cambridge Evening News, 15 October 1993 Year 1993

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Subject Michael Smith and Kary Mullis win 1993 Nobel prize for Chemistry Keywords Kary Mullis; Michael Smith