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Insights

Variety is the spice of life

May 9, 2019
Insight
This week, I have been reflecting on the strength and breadth of CaSE member organisations across the UK.  CaSE represents some of the world’s most revered universities, the most forward-thinking...
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Comment And Analysis, Policy
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A very fertile mind

May 3, 2019
Insight
Professor Simon Fishel worked with the team that created the first IVF baby in 1978 and with Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir Robert Edwards. His new book offers a glimpse...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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We are feelin’ blue

May 2, 2019
Insight
Just what is it about the colour blue and science?
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Comment And Analysis
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Better tattoo be safe

April 25, 2019
Insight
As hipster cool reaches ‘peak-ink’ the scientific literature is awash with studies on the safety of tattoos, but wonders Russ Swan isn’t this all a bit late… and is there...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Moral morsels

April 22, 2019
Insight
It is a troubling business. The simple act of lifting a morsel to your mouth is now fraught with dilemma. To eat is to run an ethical gauntlet. Wherever you...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage
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Beyond the usual suspects

April 19, 2019
Insight
“Having trained as a physicist, I find the Francis Crick Institute’s strategy of ‘discovery without boundaries’ very exciting. Adventurous multidisciplinary research like this requires a cast of characters that includes...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews
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Welcome steps and missed opportunities

April 16, 2019
Insight
Set against the backdrop of ongoing political uncertainty, the Chancellor’s Spring Statement saw welcome steps and missed opportunities for science and engineering. The Chancellor_announced changes_to visa regulations for researchers: PhD-level...
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Comment And Analysis, Policy
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Blood vessels

April 11, 2019
Insight
This amazing image of subarachnoid blood vessels won Matt MacGregor Sharp – a PhD student at the University of Southampton – a runner-up prize in last year's Reflections of Research...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Focal Point, Health/Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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The banality of nomenclature continues

April 8, 2019
Insight
Is there anything, we must ask, more exciting than the science of the unimaginably large and the near-infinitesimally small?For probing the extremes of our universe more likely than not holds...
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Comment And Analysis
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Bringing malaria diagnostics into the fold

April 5, 2019
Insight
Malaria is one of the biggest killers on the planet. Early diagnosis is considered an incredibly important part of defeating the disease, but could folded sheets of wax paper really...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Put that snack down you fools!

April 3, 2019
Insight
For all those that partake in the occasional lab-based munch, Dr Matthew Partridge has some gentle advice for you… I have a confession. Despite years of terrible paper work, awful online...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Quantum computer

April 2, 2019
Insight
A universal quantum computer will solve computational problems too vast to solve on a classical computer. But the quest to build one is inevitably a gradual one…
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Comment And Analysis
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