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Researchers gained insight not only into the biology of Little Foot’s species but also into the hardships that this individual, an adult female, encountered during her life

2 March 2021 - Wits University High resolution X-ray imaging of Little Foots skull and dentition shows Little Foot suffered periods of dietary stress and illness when she was a child. In June 2019, an international team, including researchers from Wits University, took the complete skull of the 3.67-million-year-old ‘Little Foot’ Australopithecus skeleton, from South Africa to the UK and achieved unprecedented imaging resolution of its bony structures and dentition in an X-ray synchr...

An Australopithecus woman who lived 3.67 million years ago has defects in her teeth enamel that suggest she was either deprived of food or seriously ill when young

Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little Foot, the remarkable fossil of an early human forerunner that inhabited South Africa 3.67 million years ago during a critical juncture in our evolutionary history.

Discovered in South Africa in the mid-90s Little Foots fossil was analysed in Oxfordshire with super high resolution X-ray images.

Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little Foot, the remarkable fossil of an early human forerunner that inhabited South Africa 3.67 million years ago during a critical juncture in our evolutionary history.

Scientists based at the University of Oxford as part of the Faraday Institution CATMAT project researching next-generation cathode materials have made a significant advance in understanding oxygen-redox processes involved in lithium-rich cathode materials. The paper, published in

 E-Mail IMAGE: The mitoribosome is attached to its membrane adaptor as it synthesises a bioenergetic protein (glow yellow). view more  Credit: Dan W. Nowakowski and Alexey Amunts Scientists uncover for the first time how the bodys energy makers are made using Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) at eBIC within Diamond which is based in Oxfordshire. A new paper published in Science today (19 February 2021) by an international team of researchers reports an insight into the molecular...

Date Time Scientists able to see how potential cancer treatment reacts in single cell · Osmium is a rare precious metal that could be used to treat cancer with fewer side effects when compared to Platinum, currently used in nearly half of chemotherapies · How exactly Osmium reacts in a single cancer cell has been tracked by researchers from the University of Warwick · Using a 185 metre synchrotron beamline, the researchers found that Osmium reacts in the cytoplasm rather than the nucleus of ...

Researchers track how Osmium reacts in a single cancer cell Osmium is a rare precious metal that could be used to treat cancer with fewer side effects when compared to Platinum, currently used in nearly half of chemotherapies. How exactly Osmium reacts in a single cancer cell has been tracked by researchers from the University of Warwick. Using a 185-meter synchrotron beamline, the researchers found that Osmium reacts in the cytoplasm rather than the nucleus of a human lung cancer cell, which m...