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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…

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 …

Matter over mind

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Materials science and nanotech are vital for developing implantable microdevices but there are seve…

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…

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…

The secret microbiome

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.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

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.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

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.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?

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 9 Apr 2019

Gene editing could allow incredible crop improvements, with the potential to reduce the harmful imp…

Making a human connection

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.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

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.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

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 28 Jan 2019

As cell biologists gets to grips with the relatively recent discovery of non-apoptotic programmed c…

Liquid gold

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.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

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 14 Jan 2019

Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actual…

Understanding battleground earth

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 8 Nov 2018

Falk Hildebrand takes through the first global study of the soil microbiome. This incredible intern…

The new ice age

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 22 Oct 2018

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…