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The great reproducibility problem
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 22 Aug 2017
If we can’t reproduce findings – then it isn’t science anymore. This is why the reproducibility pro…
Collaborate to accumulate
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 3 Jul 2017
Pharmaceutical research and development has historically been shrouded in mystery, a secretive acti…
A radical solution
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 27 Jun 2017
Understanding reactive oxygen species is vital for tackling many diseases – but you need to catch t…
Is this the dawn of the groupOME?
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 4 Apr 2017
Can the genome of the people around us really have a direct influence on our own health? Amelie Bau…
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…
