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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…
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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…
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Defending our last line
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Swift action is vital in the battle against AMR. But as our last lines of defense begin to fall to …
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Matter over mind
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Materials science and nanotech are vital for developing implantable microdevices but there are seve…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Making CAR-T affordable and accessible
Added: 27 Jun 2019
To fulfil the live saving potential offered by CAR-T therapies to blood cancer patients, the next s…
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The secret microbiome
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 21 May 2019
Auto-immune disease, obesity and even cancer… the microbiome is clearly involved in much of human h…
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Making a value judgement
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 7 May 2019
Bioethics has become a global endeavour – and a good thing too says Catherine Joynson. As we push t…
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One at a time
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 29 Apr 2019
Watching biological processes one molecule at a time is an incredibly difficult task… but it is get…
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An edit for good?
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 9 Apr 2019
Gene editing could allow incredible crop improvements, with the potential to reduce the harmful imp…
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Making a human connection
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.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…
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Applications that make the cut
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.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…
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The necrosome and the killer zombie proteins
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 28 Jan 2019
As cell biologists gets to grips with the relatively recent discovery of non-apoptotic programmed c…
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Liquid gold
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 21 Jan 2019
Seventy years ago, a research paper published in France went almost unnoticed, but its findings led…
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A very complex disturbance
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 14 Jan 2019
Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actual…
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Understanding battleground earth
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 8 Nov 2018
Falk Hildebrand takes through the first global study of the soil microbiome. This incredible intern…
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The new ice age
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.d | Added: 22 Oct 2018
Cryo-storage is a multibillion-dollar industry, but surprisingly we are not very good at it. Here, …
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The chips are down
tpttbqtbbt.d tpttbqtbbt.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…