Researcher Sanjie Jiang inside the 'flight arena' in the glasshouse of the Cambridge  探花直播 Botanic Garden.

Virus attracts bumblebees to infected plants by changing scent

11 August 2016

Study of bee-manipulating plant virus reveals a 鈥渟hort-circuiting鈥 of natural selection. Researchers suggest that replicating the scent caused by infection could encourage declining bee populations to pollinate crops 鈥 helping both bee and human food supplies.聽

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Diabetes

New research provides insight into cause of type 1 diabetes

05 March 2009

Scientists from Cambridge 探花直播 have discovered four rare mutations of a gene associated with type 1 diabetes (T1D) that reduce the risk of developing the disease. Their findings, published today in the journal Science, suggest a link between T1D and the enterovirus (a common virus that enters via the gastrointestinal tract but is often non-symptomatic).

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