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The wonder stuff – How peptide hydrogels could change the face of biomedicine

January 20, 2015
Feature
With a list of characteristics and applications long enough to make most bioengineers take notice, ultrashort peptide hydrogels are fast becoming the toast of biomedicine. Here, a team from Institute...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Designing complex 3D DNA scaffolds

January 15, 2015
News
A new computer model allows the design of the most complex 3D DNA shapes by building DNA scaffold and customised synthetic strands of DNA. Biological engineers from at the Massachusetts...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology
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Genomic switches hidden in ‘Loop-ome’

January 14, 2015
News
By developing 3D maps of folded genomes scientists have discovered that a structural basis for gene regulation can produce different cell types. A team of researchers at Harvard University have...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Microbiology
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A new lease of life

January 13, 2015
Feature
When a large scientific company decides to leave a manufacturing or R&D plant, what happens to the state-of-the-art facilities which only these big companies can afford?
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Signalling pathway found to reduce brain cancer proliferation

January 7, 2015
News
A common signalling pathway has been found to prevent the formation of specific brain cancers.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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The all seeing AI

January 6, 2015
Feature
Stephen Hawking and other high profile scientists have recently issuing stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by advanced artificial intelligence. But aside from being a source of existential...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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A meeting of microscopic strengths

December 24, 2014
Feature
Integrated correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) offers the possibility to study the same area on a sample using both fluorescence and electron microscopy. One of the challenges associated with...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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AMS shows modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

December 11, 2014
News
Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been revealed using an improved accelerator mass spectrometry technique.Researchers from the University of Oxford dated over...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Paleobiology
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A fault with the origin of life

December 10, 2014
News
New research has shown that deep-reaching interconnected fault systems provide the right conditions for the origin of life.The fluid mixture in the system, consisting of water, carbon dioxide and other...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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Fighting the doping cheats

December 3, 2014
Feature
Daniel Leigh explores the evolution of mass spectrometric approaches in sports drug testing At the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February, the biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle tested positive for the stimulant...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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