They also divided the children with cancer into six groups, depending on the nature of the disease, to see if radiation levels might influence some types of cancer but not others.

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He suggested the nature and levels of bee disease varied between different parts of the UK and said there was no evidence Scottish inspectors were missing vast numbers of bee disease.

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Eggan's technique, which is the subject of a paper in the current issue of Nature, creates stem cells specific to a particular disease, like cancer or diabetes, without a supply of human egg cells.

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Dr John Morgan, head of the Forestry Commission's plant health service, said the work would help shed light on "the history and nature of the introduction of new pests like Chalara, and in helping to understand how we tackle the disease that's arrived and to understand what the risk of spreading is".

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The first evidence that RNAi can actually treat disease in living creatures was published in today's issue of Nature Medicine.

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