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A right royal institution: Professor Aoife McLysaght

November 29, 2018
This year, The Royal Institution Christmas lectures will, for the first time in its 194-year history, feature not one but two lecturers. Accompanying Professor Alice Roberts for her Who am...

Finding the next generation of cancer therapy

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...

Machine learning spots viral reservoirs

November 28, 2018
A machine learning algorithm has been developed at The University of Glasgow that can predict viral reservoirs in the animal kingdom.Viruses circulate in animal and insect communities long before spreading...

Draw-your-own electrodes speed up microdetection

November 28, 2018
A new rapid prototyping method could speed up development of microdetection devices for sensing biological molecules.The method, developed by researchers at Imperial College London, allows intricate electrode patterns to be...

Drug design collaboration

November 27, 2018
Optibrium – a developer of software for drug discovery – has entered into a collaboration with the University of Nottingham to provide students with the opportunity to design new drugs.Optibrium’s...

AI could reduce gadolinium dose in MRI

November 26, 2018
AI is being used to reduce the dose of a contrast agent that is often left in the body after an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam.A team at Stanford University...

Enzyme activity enhanced by remote control

November 26, 2018
Radio frequency radiation has been used as a way to enhance the activity of enzymes.Scientists at ITMO University in Saint Petersburg synthesised a special complex in which an enzyme is...

Molecular motor powered by light alone

November 23, 2018
Chemists have developed the first molecular motor that can be powered by just light, irrespective of temperature.Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet’s Henry Dube and student Aaron Gerwien developed the motor, or chemical carousel, which...

UK spin-out licenses CRISPR

November 23, 2018
University of Cambridge spin-out DefiniGEN has licensed CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the USA, to develop human cell disease models.The technology will be combined...

Bacterial toxic bullet kills competitors

November 23, 2018
Microbiologists have discovered a toxin that allows an infectious strain of bacteria to defeat its competitors.  The new bullet-like toxin, discovered by Imperial College London scientists, is produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa,...

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