Latest In Depth
A taste for understanding
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 7 Mar 2017
As consumers become ever more label savvy, demand for foods with fewer ingredients is growing – but…
How’s your game?
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 21 Feb 2017
Reliable, precise and trusted – however, a pipette performs only as well as the operator’s techniqu…
Ruling in CRISPR patent battle
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 20 Feb 2017
As a key verdict in the legal battle over exploitation of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology is handed down…
An instrument-free future?
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 16 Feb 2017
Molecular diagnostics requires dedicated equipment and electricity – this can present a barrier to…
The prognosis of UK pathology services
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 7 Feb 2017
NHS pathology laboratories are under immense pressure to do more with less or face closure. Yet it …
Let’s get real
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 24 Jan 2017
The humble petri dish has been a stalwart of the lab for as long as cells have been cultured – but …
Not just another brick in the wall
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 12 Jan 2017
Far from being an inert capsule, chemical profiling screenings have revealed that the bacterial cel…
A complex problem...
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 9 Jan 2017
It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing more complex than algae, anima…
The Three Musketeers
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 5 Jan 2017
PARP inhibitors are increasingly becoming seen as a vital tool for use alongside conventional cance…
Understanding Nature’s scalpel
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 15 Dec 2016
The CRISPR-Cas system is already one of our most important genetic techniques – and it is one honed…
Feel the heat of antimicrobial resistance
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 23 Nov 2016
Used by Antoine Lavoisier in the 18th Century, calorimetry is one of the oldest methods of chemical…
Culture clash
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 9 Nov 2016
With estimates suggesting they can infect anything between 10-85% of cell lines in a microbiology l…
Has Microsoft made an oncological smart bomb?
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 4 Nov 2016
In September, AstraZeneca and Microsoft made headlines for their pioneering ‘drag and drop’ compute…
New map, new thinking
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 22 Sep 2016
Dr Emma Robinson tells us how comparing brain function not cortical folding patterns led to a revol…
Patent pending?
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 15 Sep 2016
When is a health treatment really new? When is a medical treatment really an invention? Patent atto…
Catch them if you can
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 12 Sep 2016
When it comes to the performance of your fluorescence microscopy system, every photon is sacred – b…
Ethics of genetics: More than just designer babies
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 6 Sep 2016
Work around the human genome and advances in the accessibility and analysis of data, creates huge o…
The super-organism behind Nature’s skyscraper
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 11 Aug 2016
Notions of the ‘super-organism’ need to be invoked to truly understand the intelligence behind Natu…
X-ray vision
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 9 Aug 2016
Bees navigate by sensing the polarisation of light. We now know that some rainforest-dwelling bees …
Transforming cells to transform lives
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 19 Jul 2016
A company in Scotland has devised a novel way to treat type 1 diabetes – producing lab grown islets…
