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A catalyst for innovation

April 10, 2014
Tapping microbial diversity with metagenomics has opened the door to more efficient biocatalysis approaches. The PolyModE project was an ambitious attempt to harness this technique for areas as diverse as...

Soap bubbles in a spin

April 8, 2014
In the February issue we reported how soap bubbles can be used to model the behaviour of twisting winds – Hamid Kellay picks up the story to give us a...

Algal biofuels Full bloom or dead in the water?

March 20, 2014
Could algae be the fuel of the future? This extremely diverse group of simple organisms is prominent in efforts to develop a green energy source to replace oil, but there...

A whole new generation

March 18, 2014
Induced pluripotent stem cells promise much for clinical and pure research, but the reliable and robust generation of these cells has proved to be a difficult task. Here we learn...

Waving goodbye to traditional pharmaceutical synthesis

March 13, 2014
Efficient, scalable and with few by-products – could microwave assisted synthesis become a ‘green’ success story? Professor Anant Paradkar thinks so. Here he tells us why Development of novel pharmaceutical...

From the lab to the boardroom – making a biomedical start-up succeed

March 11, 2014
Michael Norris discusses the challenges which biomedical SMEs face and how putting the right management structure in place can help take a product or service to market  Most early stage...

Science on the cold front

March 6, 2014
There are exciting areas of research that require extremely low temperatures, but getting down to near-absolute zero has its problems not least of which is the increasing scarcity of helium....

Taking on the resistance

March 4, 2014
The looming disaster of antimicrobial resistance is well known one…but what are we doing about this ‘catastrophic threat’? Tim Sandle delves into the Five Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy to find...

Time for change

February 20, 2014
From digital thermometers to pacemakers, The European Commission are revising the Medical Device Directive for such articles. Jean-Louis Evans looks at the impact this could have On 26th September 2012 the European...

Pure water goes nuclear

February 13, 2014
Pure water is critical in many research areas, none more so than nuclear research. Here Dr Ruth Edge and Greg Pilbrow discuss the water requirements for Manchester University’s nuclear research...

NGS– how less can be more

February 11, 2014
With the rise of targeted resequencing technologies cutting down on the data analysis bottleneck in next generation sequencing, Dr Simon Hughes discusses what this means in terms of improved accessibility...

Looking to the past to secure the future

February 6, 2014
With conventional computing approaching its performance limits _– the next generation of computer scientists are looking to the quantum world. But could  the future of computing lie in a defining...

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