All Biological Sciences

COVID waste is killing animals - how to pick COVID PPE litter safely
Added: 26 Mar 2021
How many times have you stepped over someone else's lost or discarded facemask crushed in the dirt …

Positive 'tipping points' offer hope for climate
Added: 22 Mar 2021
Climate change mitigation is forever a balancing act. Environmental experts are beginning to unveil…

Machine learning plus vital signs provides objective patient pain levels
Added: 18 Mar 2021
Describing pain from zero to ten is currently as good as it gets on the hospital floor when it come…

Workplace wellbeing and outdoor green space
Added: 15 Mar 2021
Complementing our January issue cover story on bringing nature indoors, and against a backdrop stee…

Microbial lipoxygenases: a next target against antibiotic resistance?
Added: 15 Mar 2021
Russian researchers Georgy Kurakin, Anna Samoukina and Nadezhda Potapova use bioinformatics to unco…

Tracking mosquito flight patterns in 3D using digital holography and mathematics
Added: 12 Mar 2021
Researchers have been asked to use large field-of-view digital holography to accurately apply 3D tr…

Crowd research recovers biodiversity as 17 previously lost plant species are rehabilitated
Added: 9 Mar 2021
Imagine rediscovering not one, but seventeen species that had been designated as extinct? A well or…

Laboratory Management: Monitoring the cold chain
Added: 5 Mar 2021
With many COVID vaccines relying on ultra-low temperature storage, Matt Feeny explains why and how …

Resistance is rarely futile - reinvigorating the AMR ecosystem
Added: 5 Mar 2021
Might we defeat our oldest enemy in fighting one of the newest? Peter Jackson looks at how lessons …

Towards 'Zero Leprosy' - model shows 40 million people need preventive treatment
Added: 5 Mar 2021
As the world considers strategies towards 'Zero COVID', research specialists also continue to work …

Unleashing the power of digital image analysis
Added: 1 Mar 2021
The practice of image analysis has been evolving for years, but the UK’s lockdown has hit fast-forw…

Disease Y - Prevention is cheaper than cure
Added: 26 Feb 2021
At an estimated cost of $15 trillion, the financial impact of the current pandemic has rocked the g…

Pandemic prevention: how to fireproof our future - #PandemicsReport
Added: 25 Feb 2021
As we embrace 2021 and the opportunity for a fresh perspective, Matthew Partridge reviews the indep…

Ultra-high definition predictive brain tool to guide surgery in drug-resistant epilepsy patients
Added: 25 Feb 2021
A third of epilepsy cases are drug resistant and removal of the area of the brain where seizures em…

Excellent standards drive commercial demand in bioproduction
Added: 22 Feb 2021
Protein biochemist, Dr Bernd Gerhartz, tells the story of how he and his team established a new str…

Mapping neural dynamics: Making sense of mass neuron-generated data
Added: 19 Feb 2021
How do animals process information and adapt to environmental change? New research applies AI drive…

Unveiling the twist in cell-to-cell signal transport using cryogenic electron microscopy
Added: 18 Feb 2021
It seems chemical signals move through cells in a similarly controlled fashion to shoppers moving t…

“Let’s not wait another 100 years to collaborate” appeals President of The Pistoia Alliance
Added: 16 Feb 2021
The breakthroughs in vaccine development that have been achieved in just ten months clearly demonst…

Biophilic building for human resilience and pandemic prevention
Added: 15 Feb 2021
Derived in 1964 by the social psychologist Erich Fromm, ‘biophilia’ means to love life. Here, archi…

Scent detection dogs can smell COVID-19
Added: 12 Feb 2021
A promising approach using cleverly trained pooches might bring big, public events back into play! …