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It’s in the blood
Added: 7 Oct 2019
Despite – or perhaps because of – its importance, some of the world’s most deadly diseases have the…
Law and disorder
Added: 23 Sep 2019
We have been working on Alzheimer’s for a long time… so where are all the therapeutic drugs? Here D…
Matter over mind
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Materials science and nanotech are vital for developing implantable microdevices but there are seve…
A mysterious relationship
Added: 28 Aug 2019
It is hardly a secret that obesity continues to emerge as a pandemic, but less well known is the bi…
Knowing a lot about very little
Added: 19 Aug 2019
The potential of nanomedicine to tackle many diseases is immense, but we really don’t know much abo…
Reproducibility comes as standard (part 2)
Added: 5 Aug 2019
Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In t…
Reproducibility comes as standard (part 1)
Added: 29 Jul 2019
Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In t…
Beyond the code
Added: 22 Jul 2019
Genomics has been revolutionary – but have we forgotten cell biology in the push for an ever more r…
A real growing concern
Added: 5 Jul 2019
Injuries to the spinal cord have always been associated with little or no hope of regaining lost fu…
The master manipulator
Added: 24 Jun 2019
Disrupting cellular communications, altering blood vessels and hijacking the immune system – metast…
A sub-atomic solution
Added: 7 Jun 2019
Neurodegenerative diseases are becoming a major focus for an ageing population. Here we learn how n…
The secret microbiome
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 21 May 2019
Auto-immune disease, obesity and even cancer… the microbiome is clearly involved in much of human h…
Making a value judgement
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 7 May 2019
Bioethics has become a global endeavour – and a good thing too says Catherine Joynson. As we push t…
One at a time
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 29 Apr 2019
Watching biological processes one molecule at a time is an incredibly difficult task… but it is get…
An edit for good?
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 9 Apr 2019
Gene editing could allow incredible crop improvements, with the potential to reduce the harmful imp…
Making a human connection
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 25 Mar 2019
As organ-on-a-chip technology advances at pace, the next step is to connect them and understand a n…
Applications that make the cut
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 1 Feb 2019
There’s been a lot of news and hype about CRISPR, but what can it actually do? Dr Bahri Karacay ta…
The necrosome and the killer zombie proteins
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 28 Jan 2019
As cell biologists gets to grips with the relatively recent discovery of non-apoptotic programmed c…
Liquid gold
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 21 Jan 2019
Seventy years ago, a research paper published in France went almost unnoticed, but its findings led…
A very complex disturbance
qmjwtjwqdb.d qmjwtjwqdb.d | Added: 14 Jan 2019
Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actual…
