Features

The makeup of the microbial world in the gut is increasingly recognised as a potential link to the development of the debilitating neurological disease multiple sclerosis. Bacteria have been the...

Enter the era of on demand analytics

December 7, 2016

With apps that empower drug discovery scientists to optimise models for their lead compounds right at their desk – Predictive Analytics is no longer the preserve of the select few...

Feel the heat of antimicrobial resistance

November 23, 2016

Used by Antoine Lavoisier in the 18th Century, calorimetry is one of the oldest methods of chemical analysis. But sometimes the oldies are the best says Dr Magnus Jansson. Here...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

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

Getting from data to detail

November 18, 2016

Cryo-electron microscopy may well be a landmark technology for high-res 3D imaging – potentially challenging even x-ray crystallography – but it is very data intensive. Jean-Christophe Ducom, from The Scripps...

Promising, personalised and printed: A new era of medicine

November 16, 2016

Cheap 3D printers have truly opened up access to additive manufacturing – when combined with a more personalised approach to healthcare the scene is set for a new era of...

Sensing the future

November 11, 2016

A consortium of leading European organisations in the field of chemical sensing has created a real-time, hand-held spectroscopy sensor that will combat unnecessary food wastage, increase airport safety and help...

Culture clash

November 9, 2016

With estimates suggesting they can infect anything between 10-85% of cell lines in a microbiology laboratory, Andrea Toell explains how best to protect yourself against mycoplasma

Chemistry, Life Sciences

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

Has Microsoft made an oncological smart bomb?

November 4, 2016

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