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Reindeer maintain circadian rhythm in dark months

December 26, 2018
News
Reindeer are able to maintain a 24-hour body clock during days of sustained light or darkness, according to a new research paper.An international collaboration of scientists from the James Hutton...
Life Sciences
Zoology
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Self-lighting Christmas trees with synthetic DNA

December 24, 2018
News
 CRISPR gene editing could be used to develop self-lighting Christmas trees, according to University of Warwick scientists.Engineers and biologists the university’s Interactive Synthetic Biology Centre used virtual reality to demonstrate...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
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Wasp venom repurposed as antibiotic drug

December 20, 2018
News
Variants of a peptide normally found in wasp venom could have applications as an antibiotic drug for humans.   Engineers from MIT studied antimicrobial properties of a toxin normally found in a...
Life Sciences
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Electronic pill connects to external device

December 18, 2018
News
An ingestible sensor is able to release drugs and relay diagnostic information wirelessly to an external device, such as a smartphone.The capsule, developed by researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham...
Life Sciences
Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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DeepMind AI predicts 3D protein shapes

December 3, 2018
News
A British technology company has used AI to predict the 3D structure of a protein based on its genetic sequence.DeepMind used its AlphaFold AI system focused on modelling target shapes...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Proteomics & Genomics
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A right royal institution: Professor Aoife McLysaght

November 29, 2018
Insight
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Finding the next generation of cancer therapy

November 28, 2018
Insight
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
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Machine learning spots viral reservoirs

November 28, 2018
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
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Draw-your-own electrodes speed up microdetection

November 28, 2018
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics
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Drug design collaboration

November 27, 2018
News
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...
Life Sciences
Drug Discovery
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