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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…

Harnessing the quantum world

March 2, 2016
Professor Raymond Laflamme describes the quantum world, and details the biggest challenges involved in creating technology based on quantum properties.

A map is worth a thousand words

February 26, 2016
Vibrational spectroscopy expert Dr Elizabeth Carter tells us how Raman mapping can help examine the what, where and maybe even the why of complex samples.

Breakthrough in magnesium research

February 25, 2016
Lighter, more fuel efficient cars are now a possibility due to research on enhancing magnesium’s corrosion resistance in Sweden.

Body temperature reactive polymer created

February 24, 2016
A polymer that changes shape due to body heat has been created by a team of US scientists. The material – a type of shape memory polymer – is programmed...

New phase of boron nitride discovered

February 22, 2016
US scientists have discovered a new phase of boron nitride with potential applications for manufacturing tools and electronic displays.

‘Impossible’ method used to grow organic crystals

February 18, 2016
Organic crystals have been created by Russian scientists which can reduce the cost of creating light-emitting devices.

Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions

February 11, 2016
Antarctic fungi have spent 18 months on the ISS, managing to survive under Mars-like conditions.

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