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GE Healthcare brings purification tech to Stevenage

January 17, 2019
News
GE Healthcare has announced a new biotechnology-manufacturing centre in Stevenage.   The centre, based at Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst Open Innovation Campus, will start producing a fibre-based purification platform in the first half...
Life Sciences
Biotechnology
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Porous material changes structure like a protein

January 15, 2019
News
A newly developed synthesised material can change its structure to carry out specific chemical processes, much like a protein.Using a combination of experimental and computational techniques, University of Liverpool researchers...
Life Sciences
Proteomics & Genomics
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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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Swirling bacterium

January 9, 2019
News
Individual bacteria and biofilms can generate currents strong enough to draw distant nutrients, according to a Stanford University team. As a single bacterium swims forward, it creates a tiny current...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
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Seasonal kissing and unfortunate penguins

January 7, 2019
Insight
So that’s it then. That was the season to be jolly, and now the thick grey coat of January threatens to envelop our mood.  But, if you’ll excuse our stubbornness,...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Perfecting the inside job

January 6, 2019
Insight
An industrial fellowship helped Jonathan Vince explore how to avoid the grim side-effects of traditional cancer treatment using microspheres and internal radiation   Cancer. It’s the one of the few words which...
Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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3D-printed biosensors for diabetes patients

January 4, 2019
News
3D-printed biosensors in wearable monitors have picked up glucose signals more effectively than traditionally produced electrodes.  Researchers at Washington State University’s faculty in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering used...
Life Sciences
Biotechnology
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Brain pacemaker controls optogenetics

January 3, 2019
News
A miniature wireless implant could allow more efficient optogenetics in the human brain, according to a University of Arizona study.The “brain pacemaker” is implanted under the scalp by way of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics
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Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products

January 3, 2019
News
A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly chemical products.
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Chemical Engineering
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Taking the wider view

January 3, 2019
Insight
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
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