Sarah Lawton

The truth about turtles

Sarah Lawton | Added: 20 Jul 2020

A research team from Florida State University (FSU) has discovered a world of microscopic life on t…

Re-purposing familiar drugs to defend against COVID 19

Sarah Lawton | Added: 15 May 2020

By Dermot Martin

Drugs with a successful track record against rare diseases occasionally show posi…

Covid-19 reveals misunderstanding of the lab sector

Sarah Lawton | Added: 15 May 2020

As Russ Swan settles in to a new normal of self-isolation, he'd like to believe politicians, he rea…

Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data

Sarah Lawton | Added: 13 May 2020

A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research, one of the oldest agricultural research instit…

WIN: A Tale of Seven Scientists

Sarah Lawton | Added: 11 May 2020

And a new philosophy of science
Written by Eric Scerri 

What’s your poison?

Sarah Lawton | Added: 11 May 2020

Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-mast…

The renaissance of supercritical fluid chromatography

Sarah Lawton | Added: 11 May 2020

Early development of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) was described as high-pressure or den…

A question of reagents

Sarah Lawton | Added: 1 May 2020

At the time of writing, more than 1.3M people have been infected and more than 72,600 deaths have b…

The physics of restoration

Sarah Lawton | Added: 1 May 2020

Art plays a significant part in modern society, and the art of restoration is crucial to safeguardi…

Largest Synthetic Polysaccharide Assembled

Sarah Lawton | Added: 30 Apr 2020

Chemists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) have set a miles…