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The new ice age

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Cryo-storage is a multibillion-dollar industry, but surprisingly we are not very good at it. Here, …

The chips are down

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 9 Oct 2018

Is it really possible to recreate a human on a chip? That is the ultimate aim of organ on a chip te…

Seeing the whole picture

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 4 Sep 2018

What makes one patient different from another one? Answering this question is a fundamental prerequ…

Climbing Mt Peer Review: No shame in second place

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 16 Aug 2018

In the final of our three part special on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, revi…

Climbing Mt Peer Review: time to go clubbing?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 30 Jul 2018

In the first of our three-part series on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, revie…

Toxic shock!

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 21 Jun 2018

When a species other than c.botulinum was found producing its famous toxin – only the second report…

A real fantastic voyage

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 14 Jun 2018

When many still think that swarms of medical nanobots in the body are the stuff of science fiction,…

Turning to extremes

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 21 May 2018

A taste for pollution, extremophilic cooperation, and genetic clustering – a deep dive into the mol…

Time for some probing questions

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 15 May 2018

Biomedical research is heavily dependent on utilising biological and chemical probes to understand …

Rescuing curiosity

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 May 2018

Research in commercial labs and companies is increasingly goal driven – but is there still room for…

The feel good factor

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 17 Apr 2018

A painfully direct question from a paralyzed patient set Professor Samantha Butler on a path to und…

The future character of medicine

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 23 Mar 2018

Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. H…

Systems biology goes public

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 15 Feb 2018

A personalised approach to medicine based on systems biology can only happen if there is a huge cha…

T’is the season to be queasy

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 7 Feb 2018

As the flu season continues to wreak havoc – with so-called ‘Aussie flu’ on the rampage ­– we get t…

Turning back the evolutionary clock

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 18 Jan 2018

A glance back in evolutionary time, cancer diagnostics and a deep understanding of our connection t…

Cloudy with a chance of biology...

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 6 Dec 2017

The delivery of membrane proteins to subcellular compartments is essential for eukaryotic life with…

Don’t fool yourself

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 1 Dec 2017

Are we fooling ourselves? Can science ever be free of our very human biases?

The cure within us all

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 10 Oct 2017

The great hope for cancer research is that we can cajole our own immune system to do the hard work.…

The crystal clarity of deep learning

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 3 Oct 2017

Sean McGee explains how deep machine learning could finally prove to be the key that opens up autom…

Proteomics reaches critical mass

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 19 Sep 2017

Can mass spectrometry do for complex protein research what it did for small molecule analysis?