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A very fertile mind

May 3, 2019
Insight
Professor Simon Fishel worked with the team that created the first IVF baby in 1978 and with Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir Robert Edwards. His new book offers a glimpse...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Antimicrobial microrobots remove biofilms

May 3, 2019
News
Magnetic microrobots could offer an alternative to antibacterial drugs as a way of destroying biofilms on hard-to-reach surfaces of the tooth. Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania partnered with dentists...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
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First US based human trial of CRISPR

May 1, 2019
News
The University of Pennsylvania has announced it has started the first formal US human trial using the technique. Two patients, one with multiple myeloma and one with sarcoma, both of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Proteomics & Genomics
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One at a time

April 29, 2019
Feature
Watching biological processes one molecule at a time is an incredibly difficult task… but it is getting easier says Dr Joanna Andrecka, and it could turn drug discovery on its...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Better tattoo be safe

April 25, 2019
Insight
As hipster cool reaches ‘peak-ink’ the scientific literature is awash with studies on the safety of tattoos, but wonders Russ Swan isn’t this all a bit late… and is there...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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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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