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Perfecting the inside job

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An industrial fellowship helped Jonathan Vince explore how to avoid the grim side-effects of tradit…

A right royal institution: Professor Aoife McLysaght

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This year, The Royal Institution Christmas lectures will, for the first time in its 194-year histor…

Finding the next generation of cancer therapy

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Having been awarded a grant from The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 – Carlos Julià is …

Getting the right exposure

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Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do…

The money man

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We are all aware of the sweat, tears, and stress required to win a grant bid… but what does it look…

Therapeutics LIVE!

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It has access to the largest surface area of the body, alters drugs before they even enter the bloo…

When two worlds collide

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Last month the Deconstructing Patterns exhibition opened at the Francis Crick Institute in London a…

Taking the fight to TB

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What is needed to beat TB is an approach that both takes it’s biochemical defences, but also avoids…

‘Tis the season for laughter and joy

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Fresh from delivering this year’s RI Christmas lectures, Professor Sophie Scott put her unique spin…

Pipetting in Hollywood

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Science writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Lab Innovat…

A bastion of collaboration

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In January of next year, Professor Edith Heard will take on one of the most important jobs in Europ…

When we were asked for zombie eyes…

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Zombies can be recreated easily enough for the big screen with special effects and cosmetics. So wh…

Putting the biology into politics

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As the world gets used to the new political landscape – how much of the recent upset came down to b…

Do antibodies have to be hit and miss?

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From geneticist to frontline warrior in the antibody validation crisis – Dr Giancarlo Barone tells …

Inside the head of a manipulator

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Parasitism is well known, but what happens when the parasite becomes the parasitised? Dr Kelly Wein…

The problem with PCR...

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Nothing less than a total reimagining of how we perform PCR was the starting point for inventor Ger…

Who’d win a fight between Godzilla and a T. rex?

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Following on from How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? Popular science writer Brian Clegg is back wi…

A right royal success

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Following a fellowship award from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Alice Hagan set …

Less is more for the gatekeeper of oncology

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Late last year Dr Tony Ocasio discovered a first generation cancer inhibitor. Here he talks about t…

Antibody crisis: Order from chaos

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As we slowly come to terms with the damage caused by the antibody validation crisis – there is hope…