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• Mackintosh reigns.(Mackintosh House Museum)(Brief article)

  - 2006-08-01

  Visitors to the Mackintosh House Museum in Glasgow celebrated its centenary with a host of events. In 1906 the Scottish artist and architect, famed for his art nouveau designs, moved to the terraced house in Glasgow's West End with his wife. The new home at 6 ...

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• Feet firmly on the ground

  - 2004-05-02

  THE start of a new season and Googlies is back with some good news. Our congratulations go to Kenny McCurdie, the groundsman up at Aberdeenshire Cricket Club who recently found himself being lauded at Lord's. Yes, the man responsible for the manicured surface at Mannofield has just...

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• Essient Photonics lands initial round of funding of $7 million for modulation and detection devices

  - 2002-04-12

  Bringing with it eight years of photonic research, Essient Photonics has announced its first round of funding totaling US$7 million, led by Pond Ventures. The Glasgow-based company is a supplier of integrated III-V optoelectronic components for modulation and detection in 10Gbps and 40Gbps systems. With the support of the University...

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• Converting CFCs to HFCs.(chlorofluorocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon research)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-09-26

  University of Glasgow (Glasgow, U.K.) research chemist John Winfield says he has developed a process using an aluminum-based catalyst to convert ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons CFCs into less-damaging hydrofluorocarbons HFCs. The process is a safer alternative to the current industry practices of CFC disposal via incineration, or...

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• Biologists explore ways to decaffeinate at the source

  - 2000-09-18

  GLASGOW, SCOTLAND -- A team of researchers at the University of Glasgow here and at Ochanomizu and Tsukuba universities in Japan have cloned the gene that allows for the production of caffeine, opening the way for developing naturally caffeine-free coffee and tea plants. The researchers warn that this is only...

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• University of Glasgow obtains United States patent.(Brief Article)

  - 2000-08-01

  University of Glasgow (Glasgow, United Kingdom) has patented aa Equine herpesvirus-4 mutant which does not produce a functional thymidine kinase due to a deletion and/or insertion in the gene encoding thymidine kinase, the deletion and/or insertion made at a position within the thymidine kinase gene such...

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