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AMR needs top policy priority

November 9, 2018
News
The House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee, has called for Antimicrobial Resistance to be firmly established as a ‘top five policy priority’ for the Government.The Select Committee, chaired...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
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Miniaturised pipe organ boosts medical imaging

November 9, 2018
News
A miniaturised version of a musical instrument that could be used to improve the quality of medical images has been manufactured by researchers at the University of Strathclyde.The team created...
Life Sciences
Medical Diagnostics
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Biodegradable Microbowls

November 8, 2018
Insight
Biodegradable Microbowls by Tayo Sanders II from the University of Oxford. Many tumours lack an extensive network of blood vessels, making it difficult for anti-tumour drugs to reach their deeper...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Engineering, Focal Point, Health/Diagnostics, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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Understanding battleground earth

November 8, 2018
Feature
Falk Hildebrand takes through the first global study of the soil microbiome. This incredible international effort uncovered worrying human impact, antibiotic production and one hell of a microbial battle. You’ll...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Protein key to malaria parasite’s lifecycle

October 26, 2018
News
New research suggests that a regulator protein, AP2-G, may hold the key to finding new approaches to prevent malaria.The team behind the work, from the University of Glasgow and the...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Virology
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Gut microbiome plays role in evolution

October 22, 2018
News
By using a novel system of taxonomy a team has made a key advance toward understanding which of the trillions of gut microbes may play important roles in how humans...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Physiology
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The new ice age

October 22, 2018
Feature
Cryo-storage is a multibillion-dollar industry, but surprisingly we are not very good at it. Here, Alice Fayter and Matthew Gibson talk extremophiles, ice and a new generation of biological cold...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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First interactive model of human cell division

October 17, 2018
News
A team from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have created a protein map using a 4D computer model that allows real-time tracking of proteins during mitosis.The first interactive map of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology
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Microfluidic devices

October 12, 2018
Insight
Organ on a chip technology is a new approach designed to created miniaturised physiological systems suitable for drug discovery – it relies on microfluidics. Here are some stats...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Wellcome warning for CRISPR gene editing research

October 11, 2018
News
The first formal study involving the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 has been welcomed by more than the usual CRISPR enthusiasts.The trial based in Germany and backed by US company Vertex Pharmaceuticals...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Proteomics & Genomics
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