Features

In September, AstraZeneca and Microsoft made headlines for their pioneering ‘drag and drop’ computer model of cancer cell signalling. Here Jonathan Dry explains why this isn’t simply hyperbole and that...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology

Junk food or junk genome?

November 2, 2016

As evidence pointing to the importance of non-coding regions of the genome mounts, a team from Spain discover a long non-coding RNA which plays a pivotal role in coeliac disease

Cupboard love

October 24, 2016

Save money and the environment? It is possible says Richard Eady. Here he tells us why considering your fume cupboards can help you meet environmental targets and bolster the coffers

Patenting the abstract – can you patent code?

October 20, 2016

As bioinformatics applies computer science and mathematics to biological data ideas can be, at least in part, abstract in nature – how to patent such data processing is challenging. Patent...

What doesn’t kill us…

October 13, 2016

Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-master Steve Trim takes explains how evolution can give us a pharmaceutical short-cut

The very model of a modern Martian moon

October 11, 2016

Could the two smallest satellites of Mars – Phobos and Deimos – have been formed from a disc of debris blasted into Mars orbit after a giant impact, instead of...

Reading the exosome

October 7, 2016

Once thought of as simple cellular waste disposal units, exosomes are now known to be messengers closely intertwined with a number of cellular processes. As such they can hold a...

Deep Impact?

October 6, 2016

Since their discovery in 1877 the origin of Phobos and Deimos has been a mystery. While they look like small asteroids, their orbits are not compatible with gravitational capture. So...

The fruit of our robotic labours

October 4, 2016

Robotics is not a new technology – so what has got scientists so excited recently about this scientific field? Fruit…that’s right, Agri-Tech East is bringing together scientists with industry and...

Is this the death of formaldehyde?

September 27, 2016

Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, In Depth

Formaldehyde is a common lab chemical. Widely known for its use in embalming, it is also used as a disinfectant in laboratories – however, recent EU legislation suggests we need...

Earth & Environmental

New map, new thinking

September 22, 2016

Dr Emma Robinson tells us how comparing brain function not cortical folding patterns led to a revolutionary new brain map and why this has revealed a startling truth about neural...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology

The galaxies that just stopped

September 18, 2016

Stars have been forming in galaxies in for billions of years. New research has however uncovered an unusual form of galaxy – one that doesn’t create stars, but instead prevents...