February 1, 2019

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

January 29, 2019

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

January 28, 2019

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

January 21, 2019

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

January 17, 2019

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

January 14, 2019

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

January 3, 2019

The ‘quality’ of a research paper is a tricky thing to quantify – journal impact factors and citations have gone some way to do this, but they don’t take into...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy

December 11, 2018

'The Colours of Iron' (Lochaber, Scotland) by Ursula Lawrence took the third place) in the Geological society's 2018 Earth Science Week photography competition, 'Earth Science in our Lives.'

Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials

Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Focal Point, Geology, Materials, Materials Science

November 28, 2018

Having been awarded a grant from The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 – Carlos Julià is determined to reduce the cost of next generation cancer therapies by using...

Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials

Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical

November 26, 2018

An unusually complex form of one of the most abundant chemical elements on Earth has been revealed in the lab for the first time.Researchers from the University of Edinburgh created...