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Theranos – scientific breakthrough or epic hoax?

August 3, 2016
A company on the brink of a scientific and medical breakthrough, or a hoax on an epic scale? Russ Swan considers the story of Theranos.

Parasitoid wasp

August 1, 2016
Image of a parasitoid wasp inside an latrine fly.

The growing popularity of biosimilars

August 1, 2016
A few facts concerning biosimilars, therapeutic agents that closely mimic an original biological molecule.

New company speeds up Alzheimer’s drug testing

July 29, 2016
A new neural stem cell company has been spun out from the University of Manchester to develop a drug to treat Alzheimer’s.

Raising the bar?

July 26, 2016
The role of science in sport is becoming ever more important, and with the Olympic Games upon us we turn our attention to slippery swimmers, windy runners and biomechanics to...

Won it…by a nose

July 25, 2016
Why are arguments no longer solved by swordplay? Just imagine the time we could have saved over the last three months if Farage and Cameron simply rose aloft their claymores...

Spin out deciphers membrane proteins’ interactions

July 22, 2016
OMass Technologies, a spin out from Oxford University, has become the first company to develop a method to understand the interactions of membrane proteins using mass spectrometry.

Pulling ourselves together

July 21, 2016
As laboratory equipment becomes more interconnected, can the Internet of Things help tackle the ‘reproducibility crisis’? Possibly – but, say Nicolas Paris and Klemen Zupancic, all vendors and scientists need...

Take a saunter on the conference cat-walk

July 20, 2016
Top hat and tails or Metallica t-shirt? When it comes to the scientific conference, the biggest challenges can be wardrobe-based. The ever resourceful Dr Matthew Partridge gives us some sartorial...

Credit where it is (over)due

July 15, 2016
Time to take immense pride in the many roles technicians have played in science. Hannah Kowszun takes us through a brief history of technicians and offers us up a well-deserved...

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