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	<title>Chloé Sharrocks</title>
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	<description>A look at the latest offbeat science news</description>
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		<title>Microchips Could Help Paraplegics Flick Light Switches</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Dr Sprately"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["microchip"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["paraplegic"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A British engineer has devloped a microchip which has the potential to change the lives of paraplegics with its Blue-tooth style technology.
Reported in The Telegraph today, Dr Sprately, has created a chip which can be implanted onto the brain&#8217;s surface and controlled by thought alone.
Paraplegics may have lost the ability to move their limbs, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Carbon Ice Cream</title>
		<link>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=451</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Drink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unilever, the company responsible for the ice-cream brands Ben &#38; Jerry&#8217;s and Wall&#8217;s have come up with a new way to help save the planet.
The FMCG giant has decided to make a low-carbon ice creame which will only be frozen when shoppers take the product home.  Instead the ice cream will be transported and sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Rapture: Sci-art Exhibit, London</title>
		<link>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=443</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Drink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sci-art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone in London until 27th August should check out this brand new sci-art exhibition set up in the courtyard outside Burlington House (home of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Chemistry).  Graeme Jones, a chemical ecologist and keen science communicator, has created three wonderful exhibits on the theme of Carbon Rapture.
To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bang Goes The Theory &#8211; Update</title>
		<link>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=439</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update &#8211; Bang Goes The Theory is due to start on Monday July 27th on BBC One and not July 29th as stated in my preview post, so make sure you don&#8217;t miss it!
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		<title>First Cloned Sniffer Dogs</title>
		<link>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=433</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetic Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["cloned sniffer dogs"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["South Korea"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Toppy"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Selective breeding has taken on a new meaning after South Korea announced that the &#8220;world&#8217;s first cloned sniffer dogs&#8221; have reported for duty after completing a 16-month training programme.
The six dogs, named Toppy &#8211; a combination of &#8220;tomorrow&#8221; and &#8220;puppy&#8221; are part of a litter of seven puppies born in late 2007 who were cloned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peanut Allergy Risk Could be Reduced</title>
		<link>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=424</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Drink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["allergic reactions"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["IL-33"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["peanut allergy"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["University of Glasgow"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have found a molecule that intensifies allergic reactions which could mean they can reduce the risk of children suffering serious allergic reactions to food such as peanuts.
The team of researchers from Glasgow University have also created a biological agent which they hope can reduce allergy symptoms.
Their work,published in the Proceedings of the National Association [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brand new Equine Science Column</title>
		<link>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=417</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently invited by the founder of Barnmice.com (a successful international equestrian community) to contribute to their website with a weekly equine science news column.
The column will be coming out every Friday and will be a round-up of the latest science news from the equestrian world and it will also feature an equine science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Bang Goes The Theory (BBC One, Tues 14th July)</title>
		<link>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=411</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Television]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As published on the London Blog of Nature Network:
Scientists frequently encounter voids within science &#8211; empty spaces in their knowledge.  Usually they attempt to fill these gaps in their understanding, but now one scientist is trying to cross a 2.5 metre void&#8230;all in the name of entertainment.
Tomorrow evening sees the launch of a brand new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man&#8217;s Best Friend</title>
		<link>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=389</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from North Caroline State University have discovered that a dog&#8217;s genome may be man&#8217;s new best friend, rather than the actual canine.
Comparison of human and canine genomes have allowed scientists to discover that the gene commonly believed to be responsible for one-in-four brain tumours may not be as important as originally thought.

Meningiomas are brain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equine Science News</title>
		<link>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=384</link>
		<comments>http://chloesharrocks.com/blog/?p=384#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloé</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shameless plug here I&#8217;m afraid&#8230;I&#8217;ve just launced a brand new website dedicated to the latest equestrian science news that also features short veterinary articles.
I&#8217;m going to be updating it as soon as equine science news develops and over time I&#8217;m going to be expanding the selection of veterinary features available too.
The website is called Equine [...]]]></description>
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