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Nothing more than this year’s best guess

May 12, 2013
 Don’t panic, but everything you think you know could be wrong. Sit down and let Russ Swan hold your hand through this difficult realisation…  DO YOU know something? In fact,...

Giving a soapbox to pseudoscience

May 10, 2013
 The largest measles outbreak for a decade is posing a serious danger to many, so why is the media still providing a platform for a discredited scientist?Wales’ current measles outbreak...

Overcoming the barrier to ALS

May 9, 2013
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative condition for which there is currently no effective treatment. Here we highlight the importance of enhancing drug delivery to the brain of potential treatments of...

All creatures great and small

May 7, 2013
If we want secure food supplies and an ability to tackle emerging disease – we need to turn our attention to animal health. No longer considered the poor cousin to...

Not abiding by the constraints of species

May 1, 2013
On the cover this month you’ll find staring back at you a killer of truly grotesque stature. Responsible for nearly 30 million deaths, HIV can, at the very least, be...

Number Cruncher 2

May 1, 2013
Zoonisis is the transfer of infectious disease between species

A sweet mission

April 30, 2013
Rarely would we be so bold as to start this column with a quote from one of the most harrowing poems ever penned. Yet upon receiving our Editor’s brief this...

Mind the (size) gap

April 25, 2013
 Large biological molecules continue to be strong candidates in drug development pipelines. Stephen Ball describes some of the techniques being used to measure protein aggregation in these biopharmaceuticals  As biological...

Every silver lining has a cloud

April 24, 2013
We have entered the golden age of scientific imaging, thinks Russ Swan, but it’s possible to have too much of a good thing…Of the armoury of instruments at your disposal...

Digital PCR – replacement or addition?

April 18, 2013
A digital version of the gold standard for nucleic acid quantification is allowing new levels of precision, but the analogue equivalent still has its advantages. Can you find a place...

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