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The future character of medicine

March 23, 2018
Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. However, access to the expertise and methodologies required to characterise new nanomaterials is limited. The...

The heavy metal of oncology

March 13, 2018
Forget a silver bullet – it is the is the osmium rocket we need to think about when devising selective cancer drugs Today, every two minutes someone will be diagnosed...

Investment for world’s first portable fingerprint drug test

March 7, 2018
UK-based Intelligent Fingerprinting, developers of the world’s first portable fingerprint drug test, have secured £1.7 million of funding from a group of private US and UK investors.The investment will help...

Small particles lead to big storms

February 19, 2018
Even the tiniest of particles from human emissions can fuel powerful storms and influence weather and crops much more than previously thought, according to new research.The study, published in Science,...

Taking the fight to TB

February 15, 2018
What is needed to beat TB is an approach that both takes it’s biochemical defences, but also avoids antibiotic resistance. No easy task, but Timur Avkiran – a _Royal Commission...

Systems biology goes public

February 15, 2018
A personalised approach to medicine based on systems biology can only happen if there is a huge change in the way we democratize data. Data silos have to be a...

A distinctly combinatorial approach

February 12, 2018
As energy costs go up, will we be able to leverage the power of the sun to produce chemicals? Meet Dr Timothy Noël, who last year scooped the DECHEMA award...

T’is the season to be queasy

February 7, 2018
As the flu season continues to wreak havoc – with so-called ‘Aussie flu’ on the rampage _– we get to the science behind the headlines Influenza is a complicated and therefore...

Exploding stars have a link to climate change

January 22, 2018
Cosmic rays from supernovae can influence Earth's cloud cover and thereby climate according to new research from a team from Denmark.The study reveals how atmospheric ions, produced by the energetic...

Turning back the evolutionary clock

January 18, 2018
A glance back in evolutionary time, cancer diagnostics and a deep understanding of our connection to our mammalian ancestors… when a diverse group of biologists met over Skype, their interest...

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