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Bone marrow 鈥榝rees men of HIV drugs鈥�
Doctors in the United States say two patients have been taken off their HIV drugs after they were given bone marrow transplants for blood cancers. Dr Daniel Kuritzkes is part of the medical team behind the research and says 鈥渨e've learnt something very important about the mechanisms by which HIV infected cells could be eliminated鈥�.

Self-cleaning seabird eggs
Guillemots 鈥� highly social, cliff-nesting seabirds 鈥� lay eggs that are self-cleaning. Scientists studying guillemot eggs accidentally spilled water on a batch. When the accident happened, the researchers noticed that the water stood in droplets on the eggs鈥� surface, similar to the droplets that are seen on lotus leaves or other hydrophobic, water-repellent, self-cleaning surfaces. 麻豆社 Science reporter Victoria Gill heard the scientists鈥� story at the Society for Experimental Biology Conference in Valencia, Spain.

Scarred Liver
Liver disease is on the increase worldwide, due to the rise in hepatitis C in some countries and increasing alcohol use in others. Researchers from the University of Nottingham are exhibiting how new tests, including a technique borrowed from the cheese industry and the use of unique MRI protocols, are being used to diagnose liver disease at an earlier stage. Dr Neil Guha, a liver specialist, and Dr Susan Francis, a physicist, are from the NIHR Nottingham Digestive Diseases Biomedical Research Unit in the UK.