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The founder of Marshall Amplification, Jim Marshall OBE, has died at the age of 88. A tribute to the man known as the Father of Loud was posted on his official website, praising the man whose name became iconic for electric guitarists.
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Ng Tze-chuen, a 59-year-old dentist, is teaming up with Egypt's former antiquities minister to explore the Pyramids of Giza.
To do this, he's invented a tiny insect-sized robot with dental forcep-inspired grips on the top. This will be used to travel between the cracks on two mysterious doors blocking a tomb.
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The world's first genetically modified monkeys have been created by scientists in the U.S by fusing cells from up to six different embryos.
These monkeys are the first time that chimeras — animals which are created in labs by made up of cells from two or more organisms — have been produced from a species other than rodents.
The rhesus monkeys, singleton Chimero and twins Roku and Hex, appear to be in good health with no apparent birth defects following the controversial technique.
The chimera monkeys, who were made up from a mixture of cells from as many as six individuals, could have be of "enormous" importance for medical research.
The technique of "gluing" cells from very early stage monkey embryos before placing them into the womb of mothers has met by heavy criticism, who has describes the research as "deeply disturbing."
"Using such highly sentient animals in this research raises enormous ethical concerns and imposes a heavy welfare burden, resulting in severe suffering to many animals," says Dr Jarrod Bailey, scientific consultant for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV).
