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Ethics of genetics: More than just designer babies

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Work around the human genome and advances in the accessibility and analysis of data, creates huge o…

The super-organism behind Nature’s skyscraper

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Notions of the ‘super-organism’ need to be invoked to truly understand the intelligence behind Natu…

X-ray vision

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Bees navigate by sensing the polarisation of light. We now know that some rainforest-dwelling bees …

Transforming cells to transform lives

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A company in Scotland has devised a novel way to treat type 1 diabetes – producing lab grown islets…

The beauty of the beast

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The enigmatic Tully Monster has become something of a palaeontological icon, yet there is much to l…

Old dog, new tricks

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Have we overlooked some incredible pharmacological properties of aspirin? Martyna Petrulyte takes a…

From the front line

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We hear from Professor Daouda Ndiaye – a Senegalese researcher taking on malaria – about a new test…

The pace and pattern of being

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Maturation in mammals varies widely, but the exact reasons why are still unclear. A new method of m…

What to do with a problem like Zika?

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The current Zika outbreak first began in Brazil in April 2015. It has been strongly linked to newbo…

A personal interpretation

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There is a clear move away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to medicine and instead a new person…

Data takes on the dopers

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New studies looking at the subtle changes that can occur when human blood is stored could help put …

Symptom or cause? Autism and immune dysfunction

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There are tantalising clues that anomalies in immune function may be related to autism spectrum dis…

A map is worth a thousand words

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Vibrational spectroscopy expert Dr Elizabeth Carter tells us how Raman mapping can help examine the…

When does ageing become disease?

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Our understanding of the molecular process of ageing is growing, as such our understanding of risk …

Swimming out from an evolutionary shadow

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We hear how the humble turtle has been problematic to classify correctly in an evolutionary context…

Climbing to the cloud

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Bioinformatics needs to change says Dr Thomas Connor and for that to happen we need to look to the …

A fascinating act of cellular cannibalism

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After a century of observing strange acts of cellular cannibalism, Jo Durgan and Oliver Florey tell…

It simply isn’t cricket

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It is well-established that parasites can affect the behaviour of their hosts, but can a parasitica…

The quantum weirdness powering biology

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It allows particles to be in two places at once, pass through impenetrable barriers or maintain spo…

Touching the sky

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Bats are amongst the most agile of fliers – but can it really be their sense of touch which is key …