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Professor Iain Stewart visits Britain's leading laboratories

logo for Britain's Labs - Bristol Centre for Nanoscience
Britain's Labs - Bristol Centre for Nanoscience

Prof Stewart visits Bristol Centre for Nanoscience and finds out how nano materials may revolutionise medicine, computing and solar power.

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Britain's Labs - Rothamsted Research

At the world's oldest agricultural research centre scientists use the latest genetic approaches to improve the health and resistance of crops, amid worries about food security.

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Britain's Labs - Stem Cells

Iain Stewart talks to scientists and clinicians working at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine lab in Edinburgh about their efforts to treat diseases using stem cell technology.

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logo for Britain's Labs - The Institute for Cancer Research
Britain's Labs - The Institute for Cancer Research

Hopes are pinned on targeted genetic therapies as a future treatment for cancers. Prof Iain Stewart visits the UK lab where this approach is leading to the development of drugs.

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logo for Britain's Labs - The National Nuclear Laboratory
Britain's Labs - The National Nuclear Laboratory

The renewal of interest in nuclear energy has reinvigorated science at the National Nuclear Lab in Cumbria. So why is it that a new 250-million-pound lab lies empty?

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