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The buying of influences across sectors has the effect of undermining democratic institutions and negatively impacting on public trust in democratic processes.


Alison Tilley

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ALISON GOLDFRAPP It's like they're a separate identity to the whole music and imagery,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP I think I heard it once on Top Of The Pops and thought it was very bland,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP Most people have a receptor that's very sensitive to the bitter-tasting compound, but in people that...
ALISON GOATE One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.
ALISON GOATE We looked in a region of chromosome 7, where there are hundreds of genes, and we noticed that there ...
ALISON GOATE When we understand more about the genes and the environmental factors that influence someone's risk,...
ALISON GOATE The region of DNA identified in our study showed evidence of replication in four independent series ...
ALISON GOATE There are a few genes that have been implicated in the development of early-onset Alzheimer's diseas...
ALISON GOATE We don't know which of those genes is most likely to harbor this particular risk factor for Alzheime...
ALISON GOATE In earlier work, we had identified chromosome 7 as a region where there was likely to be a gene-infl...
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