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A mysterious relationship

August 28, 2019
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It is hardly a secret that obesity continues to emerge as a pandemic, but less well known is the biochemical link with depression. While it is proving difficult to elucidate,...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Knowing a lot about very little

August 19, 2019
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The potential of nanomedicine to tackle many diseases is immense, but we really don't know much about how they get into cells and what potential damage – as well as...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Chemical Engineering, Cytology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Engineering, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, In Depth, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Reproducibility comes as standard (part 2)

August 5, 2019
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Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In the second of a two-part feature on the subject, Rationally CEO Kristin Lindquist_ explains...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Atmospheric Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Forensics, Geology, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Physics
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Reproducibility comes as standard (part 1)

July 29, 2019
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Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In the first of a two-part feature, Gerhard Noelken from The Pistoia Alliance explains that...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Analytical Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Green Chemistry, Health & Safety, In Depth, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry
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Beyond the code

July 22, 2019
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Genomics has been revolutionary – but have we forgotten cell biology in the push for an ever more reductive understanding of health and disease? Professor John S Torday thinks the...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Haematology, Health, In Depth, Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Physiology
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A real growing concern

July 5, 2019
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Injuries to the spinal cord have always been associated with little or no hope of regaining lost functions once the trauma has occurred. But, says Dr Jerry Silver, there are...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Making CAR-T affordable and accessible

June 27, 2019
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To fulfil the live saving potential offered by CAR-T therapies to blood cancer patients, the next step is to ensure the technology is not restricted to a small subset of...
Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Immunology, In Depth
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The master manipulator

June 23, 2019
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Disrupting cellular communications, altering blood vessels and hijacking the immune system – metastasis is one of the biggest challenges when tackling cancer. Could an understanding of how cancer cells manipulate...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Immunology, In Depth
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Terraforming Mars: A giant leap too far?

June 17, 2019
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SpaceX plans to send humans to Mars by 2024 and establish a Martian city by 2050 but how plausible is this? Here's why it's going to take a little more...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, In Depth, Physics
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Titrating talent

June 11, 2019
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More chemistry graduates leave science than stay in it… what can we do about that? Stuart Brown thinks that increased collaboration between industry and academia is key in developing and...
Chemistry
Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemistry, In Depth, Policy
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A sub-atomic solution

June 7, 2019
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Neurodegenerative diseases are becoming a major focus for an ageing population. Here we learn how neutrons are helping us understand the misfolded proteins thought to underlie many of these conditions.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, In Depth
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Alternative periodic tables

June 4, 2019
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In celebration of the International Year of the Periodic Table, we decided to tip our hat to some of the more unusual, obscure and overlooked periodic designs.
Chemistry
Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemistry, In Depth
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