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First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Pay attention: How we focus and concentrate

News from Newcastle UniversityScientists at Newcastle University have shed new light on how the brain tunes in to relevant information.Publishing in Neuron, the team reveal the interplay of brain chemicals which help us pay attention in work funded by ... [Published BBSRC - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Neuron, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, NMDA, Receptor, Acetylcholine

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Survey: The next big things in bioscience

Sets a cookieAs part of BBSRC's long-term strategic planning, we are seeking your views on the research areas and technological developments which will be most exciting and important in bioscience over the next 5-10 years.Ideas put forward through this ... [Published BBSRC - May 17 2013]

Entities: Life Science

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

An international vision for wheat improvement

BBSRC is not responsible for the content of external websitesBy 2050, a 60% increase in wheat production will be needed to meet the demand of a growing population. The Wheat Initiative, an international consortium gathering public institutions and private ... [Published BBSRC - May 16 2013]

Entities: Wheat, Initiative, Food Security

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Malaria parasites manipulate mosquitoes

Scientists will attempt to find out how malaria parasites manipulate their mosquito hosts after discovering that smell could be a major factor.In a study published in PLOS ONE today, a team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical ... [Published BBSRC - May 16 2013]

Entities: Malaria, Parasitism, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, James Logan, Odour

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Synthetic biology dialogue - Impacts

BBSRC is not responsible for the content of external websitesBBSRC, with input from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has published a document outlining the impacts that their 2010 'Synthetic Biology Dialogue' has had in ... [Published BBSRC - May 15 2013]

Entities: Synthetic Biology, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, European Commission

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Reducing the environmental impacts of fertiliser use

Scientists have demonstrated how improvements in nitrogen fertiliser manufacture and their application could help reduce China's agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by around 60%, by 2030, compared to the current business as usual approach. This emissions ... [Published BBSRC - May 15 2013]

Entities: Fertilizer, China, Carbon Dioxide, Sain

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Wheat breeding science offers greater yields

UK wheat yields could be boosted by up to 30% with the introduction of a new wheat bred from a wild grass species.The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in Cambridge has recreated the original rare cross between an ancient wheat and wild ... [Published BBSRC - May 14 2013]

Entities: Wheat, yield, United Kingdom, Food Security, Rob Dawson

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Chief Executive's blog: Biotechnology in Korea and Japan

To ensure that BBSRC Science remains at the frontier of international competitiveness, I arrange occasional visits abroad, approximately annually, to check this out on the ground (one such was the Big Data mission to the USA). Given the strategic importance ... [Published BBSRC - May 13 2013]

Entities: Industrial Biotechnology Corporation, Biotechnology, Japan

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

BBSRC is major partner in new €15M Europe-wide synthetic biology funding

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is contributing €3M as a major partner in a new Europe-wide call for research projects in Synthetic Biology.The call is the first from the Synthetic Biology ERA-NET (ERASynBio) - a project ... [Published BBSRC - May 13 2013]

Entities: Synthetic Biology, Biofuels, Douglas Kell, Biology

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Innovators 2013 part three - Peter Mertens and team tackle bluetongue disease

In a series of three articles, BBSRC Innovator of the Year 2013 winners reveal the secrets behind their innovations.In this, the third, Social Innovator winner Peter Mertens recalls how his group helped prevent the bluetongue disease of sheep becoming ... [Published BBSRC - May 09 2013]

Entities: Bluetongue Disease, Virus, United Kingdom, Pirbright Laboratory, Vaccine

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Event: RCUK interactive exhibition - 30 April to 20 May 2013 at: Central Library, Swindon

BBSRC is not responsible for the content of external websitesVenue: Central Library, SwindonWheat yield exhibit at the Central Library.Image: Katie Clark, RCUKSwindon-based Research Councils UK's interactive exhibition aims to show local people how the ... [Published BBSRC - May 08 2013]

Entities: Wheat, Food Security, Well-being, Economic Growth

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

H7N9: A novel influenza virus

By Dr Colin Butter, Dr Holly Shelton and Dr Munir Iqbal of The Pirbright Institute's Avian Viral Diseases Programme.Influenza virus (red) replicating in chicken cells (green) with nuclei stained blue.Image: The Pirbright InstituteIn the space of just ... [Published BBSRC - May 08 2013]

Entities: Virus, Influenza, H7N9

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"Our earlier work has shown that attention is able to affect the intensity of responses - in effect the loudness - by means of the brain chemical acetylcholine. Now we have shown that the fidelity of the response is altered by a different brain chemical system."

Pay attention: How we focus and concentrate [Published BBSRC - 13 hours ago]

To take part in the survey "The next 'big things' in bioscience', please visit: www.keysurvey.co.uk/votingmodule/s180/f/514513/9cbc0d110235ff29/"

Survey: The next big things in bioscience [Published BBSRC - May 17 2013]

Dr Logan and team have been awarded a grant of £463,905 from the BBSRC to investigate "Olfactory mechanisms underlying behavioural manipulation of mosquitoes by malaria parasites" . R C Smallegange et al, Malaria infected mosquitoes express enhanced attraction to human odour, PLOS ONE. The paper is available at dx.plos.org/10...

Malaria parasites manipulate mosquitoes [Published BBSRC - May 16 2013]

Steve Visscher, BBSRC Deputy Chief Executive and Chair-Elect of the Wheat Initiative Institutions Coordination Committee, says: "The Wheat Initiative provides a new global framework to establish strategically focused research and organisational priorities for wheat research at the international level. It will bring together both research and funding organisations in the public and private sectors for a new collective effort. It will identify potential synergies and nurture collaborations between research and development programs for wheat improvement, in developed and developing countries" . The Wheat Initiative will also develop specific activities to enhance communication and increase access for all to information resources and techno...

An international vision for wheat improvement [Published BBSRC - May 16 2013]