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Understanding the biochemical arms race

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 10 Jan 2018

In the ongoing war between mammalian cells and their bacterial invaders, an incredibly powerful mec…

Chemistry sets sail for success

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 18 Dec 2017

The marine fuels market is on the brink of a major global upheaval – and chemical testing is at the…

Round the clock purity

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 14 Dec 2017

From glass washing to reagent preparation and instrumental analysis ­– high quality water is a vita…

Winning the battle but not the war

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 11 Dec 2017

Mosquitoes are notorious for being the world’s biggest killers – but how can we best prevent them f…

Cloudy with a chance of biology...

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 6 Dec 2017

The delivery of membrane proteins to subcellular compartments is essential for eukaryotic life with…

All is not as it seems

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 4 Dec 2017

Digital images are frequently used to provide supporting evidence within papers and reports, yet ar…

Don’t fool yourself

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 1 Dec 2017

Are we fooling ourselves? Can science ever be free of our very human biases?

Your flexible friend

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 24 Oct 2017

If you want flexibility in lab design as requirements change, then it pays to involve vendors from …

Do we need to be more negative?

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 17 Oct 2017

As nanotech applications become more diverse, the need for reliable vibration control has become cr…

Make it rain

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 12 Oct 2017

Jacky Pallas knew that putting biomedical research in the cloud on a global scale was never going t…

The cure within us all

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 10 Oct 2017

The great hope for cancer research is that we can cajole our own immune system to do the hard work.…

The crystal clarity of deep learning

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 3 Oct 2017

Sean McGee explains how deep machine learning could finally prove to be the key that opens up autom…

Making pharma ergonomic

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 26 Sep 2017

There is a solution to daunting compliance issues, says Dr Brian Edwards, and it is a very human on…

This is IT

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 25 Sep 2017

Pharmaceutical firms not only have to create breakthrough medicines – they have to do so whilst rem…

Proteomics reaches critical mass

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 19 Sep 2017

Can mass spectrometry do for complex protein research what it did for small molecule analysis?

It all comes with chips

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 12 Sep 2017

The revolution we have all been waiting for is actually in full swing say Mark Gilligan and Max Dro…

Taming Tempests

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 8 Sep 2017

Dr Qin Jim Chen explains how hurricane modelling enables the prediction of natural phenomena that c…

A new quantum uncertainty

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 5 Sep 2017

It’s quantum entanglement, but not as we know it say Kayn Forbes and David Andrews as we discover t…

The great reproducibility problem

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 22 Aug 2017

If we can’t reproduce findings – then it isn’t science anymore. This is why the reproducibility pro…

Don’t let energy efficiency tie you in knots

qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 15 Aug 2017

Laboratories are some of the most sophisticated man made environments on the planet – however, as t…