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Evolved herbicide resistance driven by chemical usage

March 19, 2018
News
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have identified factors which are driving the evolution of herbicide resistance in crops – something which could also have an impact on medicine as...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany
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Organ-on-chip tech offers Hep B hope

March 16, 2018
News
Scientists at Imperial College London have become the first in the world to test how pathogens interact with artificial human organs.The team used an artificial liver __- originally developed at...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Heroin vaccine close to human trials

March 9, 2018
News
Scientists from the US say they have achieved a major milestone toward designing a safe vaccine to both treat heroin addiction and block lethal overdose of the drug.Their research, published...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Skin cell

March 8, 2018
Insight
This image of skin cell expressing an excessive amount of keratin has won Dr Bram van den Broek of The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) taking first place in 43rd annual...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Focal Point, Health/Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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When two worlds collide

March 7, 2018
Insight
Last month the Deconstructing Patterns exhibition opened at the Francis Crick Institute in London aiming to fuse the worlds of art and science. We caught up with Dr Iris Salecker...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews
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Investment for world’s first portable fingerprint drug test

March 7, 2018
News
UK-based Intelligent Fingerprinting, developers of the world’s first portable fingerprint drug test, have secured £1.7 million of funding from a group of private US and UK investors.The investment will help...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Forensics
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Deep-brain light penetration goes wireless

March 6, 2018
News
A team from a Japanese research institute have found a way to penetrate deep brain structures with light – an important step for the development of optogenetics.Thomas McHugh, research group...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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Taking the fight to TB

February 15, 2018
Insight
What is needed to beat TB is an approach that both takes it’s biochemical defences, but also avoids antibiotic resistance. No easy task, but Timur Avkiran – a _Royal Commission...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Systems biology goes public

February 15, 2018
Feature
A personalised approach to medicine based on systems biology can only happen if there is a huge change in the way we democratize data. Data silos have to be a...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Bacteria used to block dengue and Zika

February 15, 2018
News
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have found a bacterial strain which blocks dengue and Zika virus transmission from mosquitoes. The team show that a novel strain of the inherited bacteria...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Virology, Zoology
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