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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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AI could reduce gadolinium dose in MRI

November 26, 2018
News
AI is being used to reduce the dose of a contrast agent that is often left in the body after an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam.A team at Stanford University...
Life Sciences
Medical Diagnostics
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Enzyme activity enhanced by remote control

November 26, 2018
News
Radio frequency radiation has been used as a way to enhance the activity of enzymes.Scientists at ITMO University in Saint Petersburg synthesised a special complex in which an enzyme is...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
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Molecular motor powered by light alone

November 23, 2018
News
Chemists have developed the first molecular motor that can be powered by just light, irrespective of temperature.Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet’s Henry Dube and student Aaron Gerwien developed the motor, or chemical carousel, which...
Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Energy, Nanotechnology
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UK spin-out licenses CRISPR

November 23, 2018
News
University of Cambridge spin-out DefiniGEN has licensed CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the USA, to develop human cell disease models.The technology will be combined...
Life Sciences
Biotechnology
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Bacterial toxic bullet kills competitors

November 23, 2018
News
Microbiologists have discovered a toxin that allows an infectious strain of bacteria to defeat its competitors.  The new bullet-like toxin, discovered by Imperial College London scientists, is produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa,...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
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Split the difference

November 22, 2018
Insight
Our brains can integrate left and right functions... so why can't our society do the same?
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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AI enhanced NMR sets record

November 19, 2018
News
Swiss scientists have created a method that can be combined with NMR spectroscopy to determine the exact location of atoms in complex organic compounds.The team, from École Polytechnique Fédérale de...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry
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Synthetic biology takes on ancient evolutionary mysteries

November 16, 2018
News
Synthetic biologists in the US have engineered organisms similar to those thought to have lived billions of years ago allowing them to study ancient evolutionary mysteries.The team from Scripps Research...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
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Influenza epidemic

November 12, 2018
Insight
We are overdue an influenza epidemic and the hunt is on for a universal flue vaccine. Here we look at some sickness stats...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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