The study, which tracked 1000 patients in 16 countries for more than four years, was conducted by researchers from Queens University and Newcastle University in the UK. They focused principally on people with Lynch syndrome, an inherited genetic disorder that causes cancer by affecting genes responsible for detecting and repairing DNA damage.
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The Newcastle pilot - run by Newcastle University and the city council - is part of a project involving six other European cities in France, Denmark, The Netherlands, Greece, Italy and Spain.
Marion Petrie and her colleagues at the University of Newcastle and the University of Sheffield tackled this question by studying a couple of hundred of these flighty creatures strutting their stuff at an animal park at Whipsnade, near London.
Professor Paul Younger from the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability at Newcastle University says the "fundamental problem is that it has a tendency to be strongly alkaline".
Mr Patten, who is chancellor of both Oxford University and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, said the party should not be arguing for a cap on fees.
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The Newcastle University student, originally from Southport in Merseyside, was last seen in the Sandyford area of Newcastle at 02:45 BST on 16 May.
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Dr Lyle Armstrong, at Newcastle University, said that the study "without doubt" marked an advance for the field.
Newcastle University's Professor Phil Blythe said the trial was "unique" in giving information direct to drivers.
Another series of laboratory-based experiments, carried out at Newcastle University, examined the behaviour of the bees.
Newcastle University researchers have called for urgent action to protect the Neolithic and Bronze Age carvings.
Scientists at Newcastle University say the machine will "revolutionise" the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The survey was carried out by Newcastle University, Loughborough University and the Council for British Archaeology.
Newcastle University, for example, runs a scheme with local schools and colleges on Tyneside.
Trials involving 63 patients are under way at the Northern Institute of Cancer Research at Newcastle University.
The one at Newcastle University's farm, Cockle Park, in Morpeth, Northumberland is the most north-westerly in Europe.
"There's a bit of a regulatory mess, " said Eric Sampson, a visiting professor in transport at Newcastle University.
The findings are being presented at a meeting on Thursday hosted by the Soil Association and Newcastle University.
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But Neil Ward of Newcastle University thinks the charges of neglect are justified.
Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing at Newcastle University Carol Jagger and Professor David Bell from Stirling University also gave evidence.
Newcastle University engineers have developed blast-resilient rolling stock after drawing on lessons learned from the 7 July, 2005 suicide bombings.
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Researchers at Newcastle University found unpleasant noises provoked a stronger response from the brain than pleasant ones such as bubbling water.
Detectives said some of those taken ill were students at Newcastle University.
The annual TED prize, handed out by organisers of the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, has gone Dr Sugata Mitra, from Newcastle University.
The discovery, reported by scientists at Newcastle University, overturns previous assumptions about type 2 diabetes, which was thought to be a lifelong illness.
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Africa has seen a surge of adoptions in the past eight years, according to adoption expert Peter Selman from Newcastle University in Britain.
Graham, who is based at Newcastle University's school of architecture, planning and landscape, also asked for 23 similar offences to be taken into consideration.
Dr Bevan and the team of researchers from Newcastle University also fitted the tiny geolocator tags to the leg rings of eight puffins during 2009.
The use of technology in education in emergencies is also on the agenda with guest speaker Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University (UK).
The Big Sea Survey was launched in 2010 by Newcastle University to record flora and fauna along a 150-mile stretch of coastline from St Abbs to Saltburn.
Mr Hamilton, of Offerton Close, Sunderland, a former technician at Newcastle University's Medical School, had retrained as a teacher and did supply work throughout the North East.
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