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Human microbiome

May 15, 2019
There is so much to be discovered about the human microbiome, but what we do know is pretty amazing...

Flea bacteria

May 9, 2019
This digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a number of yellow _Yersinia pestis_bacteria.

A very fertile mind

May 3, 2019
Professor Simon Fishel worked with the team that created the first IVF baby in 1978 and with Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir Robert Edwards. His new book offers a glimpse...

Better tattoo be safe

April 25, 2019
As hipster cool reaches ‘peak-ink’ the scientific literature is awash with studies on the safety of tattoos, but wonders Russ Swan isn’t this all a bit late… and is there...

Moral morsels

April 22, 2019
It is a troubling business. The simple act of lifting a morsel to your mouth is now fraught with dilemma. To eat is to run an ethical gauntlet. Wherever you...

Beyond the usual suspects

April 19, 2019
“Having trained as a physicist, I find the Francis Crick Institute’s strategy of ‘discovery without boundaries’ very exciting. Adventurous multidisciplinary research like this requires a cast of characters that includes...

Blood vessels

April 11, 2019
This amazing image of subarachnoid blood vessels won Matt MacGregor Sharp – a PhD student at the University of Southampton – a runner-up prize in last year's Reflections of Research...

Bringing malaria diagnostics into the fold

April 5, 2019
Malaria is one of the biggest killers on the planet. Early diagnosis is considered an incredibly important part of defeating the disease, but could folded sheets of wax paper really...

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