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Reading the immune system

February 14, 2019
Insight
It is a combination of academia and industry which is helping Aleksandr Kovaltsuk read the logbook of the immune system…In the last three decades, scientists have developed various techniques to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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An affirmation of alternatives

February 11, 2019
Feature
As concern over the reliability of commercially available antibodies continues to grow, we ask: when is an antibody not an antibody? When it is an affimer – Ryan Hannan and...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Chemistry, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical
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Nano-enhanced palladium reacts to light

February 7, 2019
News
An optical-enhanced form of palladium could be the key to a more environmentally friendly chemical manufacturing industry.Researchers at RMIT University in Australia manipulated the optical properties of palladium nanoparticles to...
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry
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Shooting down HIV hope

February 4, 2019
Insight
When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, all passengers and crew were killed – among them Dr Joep Lange who had dedicated his life to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Applications that make the cut

February 1, 2019
Feature
There’s been a lot of news and hype about CRISPR, but what can it actually do?  Dr Bahri Karacay take us through the hopes and limitations of the technique...  ...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Graphene turned into dough for transport

January 29, 2019
News
Graphene in the form of malleable dough could be more economical to store and transport and less prone to combustion.A team at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering made the dough...
Chemistry, Materials
Chemistry, Materials Science
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The necrosome and the killer zombie proteins

January 28, 2019
Feature
As cell biologists gets to grips with the relatively recent discovery of non-apoptotic programmed cell death and the fact that its dysfunction can lead to disease, Dr Emma Petrie takes...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Liquid gold

January 21, 2019
Feature
Seventy years ago, a research paper published in France went almost unnoticed, but its findings led to a £250 billion global market in cancer testing. Dermot Martin brings us up...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Greener ammonia eliminates hydrogen and metal catalyst

January 17, 2019
News
A new process of creating ammonia from nitrogen and water eliminates the use of hydrogen or solid metal catalysts.The low temperature, low pressure electrolytic process developed at Ohio's Case Western...
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Energy
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A very complex disturbance

January 14, 2019
Feature
Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actually influence natural selection doesn’t seem controversial. But the truth could well be...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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