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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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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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