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Running interference

April 23, 2019
Feature
Immuno-Oncology is considered a vital front in the battle against cancer, but will current approaches get us there? Dr Geert Cauwenbergh takes us through some pitfalls and tells us how...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Moral morsels

April 22, 2019
Insight
It is a troubling business. The simple act of lifting a morsel to your mouth is now fraught with dilemma. To eat is to run an ethical gauntlet. Wherever you...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage
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Colourful egg for seabird recognition

April 19, 2019
News
The colourful appearance of the common murre egg is due to a genetic ability of the mother to manipulate pigments.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Beyond the usual suspects

April 19, 2019
Insight
“Having trained as a physicist, I find the Francis Crick Institute’s strategy of ‘discovery without boundaries’ very exciting. Adventurous multidisciplinary research like this requires a cast of characters that includes...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews
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£20M dementia care tech centre

April 18, 2019
News
A new centre at Imperial College London will develop technologies to support people with dementia and provide research into how dementia develops. The £20 million Care Research & Technology Centre...
Life Sciences
Medical Diagnostics
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Internet of Thoughts

April 16, 2019
News
Neuroscientists say an Internet of Thoughts network that connects neurons and synapses in the brain to cloud-computing networks could be a possibility within decades.A collaboration between researchers from UC Berkeley...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Computer Science, Neuroscience
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Oil-degrading bacterium

April 15, 2019
News
Hydrocarbon-eating bacteria found in the deepest part of the Earth’s oceans could help clean up made-made oil spills.Scientists from the University of East Anglia, China and Russia undertook analysis of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
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Cthulhu’ fossil suggests monstrous sea cucumber precursor

April 11, 2019
News
A newly discovered fossil has given insights into a monstrous relative of the sea cucumber. University of Oxford researchers created a computer-generated reconstruction of the 430 million year-old, 3cm-wide fossil...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Paleobiology
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Blood vessels

April 11, 2019
Insight
This amazing image of subarachnoid blood vessels won Matt MacGregor Sharp – a PhD student at the University of Southampton – a runner-up prize in last year's Reflections of Research...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Focal Point, Health/Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Chlorophyll-producing organism is non-photosynthetic

April 9, 2019
News
Biologists have identified the first organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in photosynthesis.The organism, which has been informally named corallicolid, is found in 70% of corals globally....
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Botany, Energy, Microbiology
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