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Defending our last line

September 10, 2019
Swift action is vital in the battle against AMR. But as our last lines of defense begin to fall to a worryingly diverse number of bacterial resistance mechanisms, forget therapeutics,...

Matter over mind

September 10, 2019
Materials science and nanotech are vital for developing implantable microdevices but there are several key issues to overcome before a device can be successfully used to tackle neurological disease. Here...

Forensics in crisis?

September 2, 2019
A drop in forensics R&D funding and no central body for forensics services is putting justice in jeopardy in England and Wales, according to the House of Lords. Here's why...

A mysterious relationship

August 28, 2019
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,...

Knowing a lot about very little

August 19, 2019
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...

Reproducibility comes as standard (part 1)

July 29, 2019
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...

Beyond the code

July 22, 2019
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...

A real growing concern

July 5, 2019
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...

Making CAR-T affordable and accessible

June 27, 2019
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...

The master manipulator

June 23, 2019
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...

Terraforming Mars: A giant leap too far?

June 17, 2019
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...

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