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From the front line

May 19, 2016
We hear from Professor Daouda Ndiaye – a Senegalese researcher taking on malaria – about a new test promising to save lives by being faster, more accurate and easier to...

Upgraded spectrometer able to analyse outer space

May 18, 2016
A spectrometer has had its capabilities extended to identify large, complex molecular structures found in explosives, fuels, and gases around stars.

Chef de science

May 4, 2016
Professor Peter Barnham speaks on the science of molecular gastronomy.

Study offers hope for cleaning radioactive water

April 22, 2016
US scientists have discovered a new chemical method to immobilise uranium in contaminated groundwater, which could result in better ways to improve water remediation at old nuclear sites.

Wonder material finally created in bulk

April 20, 2016
Carbyne, hailed as a wonder material due to its physical properties, has been created in large amounts by researchers at Vienna University.

The pace and pattern of being

April 8, 2016
Maturation in mammals varies widely, but the exact reasons why are still unclear. A new method of monitoring growth may provide the answer.

What to do with a problem like Zika?

April 6, 2016
The current Zika outbreak first began in Brazil in April 2015. It has been strongly linked to newborn microcephaly and also Guillain-Barré syndrome.

A personal interpretation

March 25, 2016
There is a clear move away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to medicine and instead a new personalised medicine strategy is becoming more important. Mike Furness explains more...

Data takes on the dopers

March 23, 2016
New studies looking at the subtle changes that can occur when human blood is stored could help put an end to blood doping.

Symptom or cause? Autism and immune dysfunction

March 18, 2016
There are tantalising clues that anomalies in immune function may be related to autism spectrum disorders. In unpicking this connection, one lab needed a new approach to the immune assay…

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