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Amazonia’s Living Library Under Threat from Climate Change

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By Roger Highfield
| sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk
By the end of this century, Indigenous communities across Amazonia could lose around a third of the native plant species on which they depend. At the same time, the disappearance of their languages threatens to erase a quarter of the region’s documented knowledge of those plants. Together, the losses threaten one of the world’s richest stores of biological and cultural diversity. The findings, reported by a team today at the University of Zurich, matter far beyond Amazonia.
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Stopping lung cancer before it starts

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By Roger Highfield
| sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk
Lung cancer may be moving into the era of prevention. A blood test could identify high-risk people years before diagnosis, and existing anti-inflammatory drugs might stop some cancers before they start, reports Roger Highfield, Science Director. The nineteenth century feared infection. The twentieth learned to dread heart attacks. The twenty-first has become preoccupied with cancer, a side effect, in large part, of the welcome fact that we are living longer.
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Life lessons with Kate Bingham

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By Roger Highfield
| crick.ac.uk
A member of the Crick’s board of trustees, Kate Bingham studied biochemistry at Oxford University before embarking on a career developing early‑stage biotech companies. Since joining SV Health Investors in 1991, she’s helped build numerous start-ups, resulting in the launch of six new drugs for conditions as diverse as inflammatory and autoimmune disease and cancer. Kate spends weekends at her home in Wales.
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