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An edit for good?

April 9, 2019
Feature
Gene editing could allow incredible crop improvements, with the potential to reduce the harmful impact of agrochemicals on biodiversity while boosting yield. However, the recent European Court of Justice ruling...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Food & Bev, Food and Drink, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Down on the farm

February 28, 2019
Feature
The complex balance of species which live in and around farmland are vulnerable to climate change – but we really know very little about how farm biodiversity interacts. Here Darren...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Food & Bev, Food and Drink, In Depth
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Fast food

February 7, 2019
Feature
Speed breeding isn't a new concept but it could be crucial to ramping up food production in Europe in the light of recent rulings on gene editing… Regardless of where...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Bev, Food and Drink, In Depth, Policy
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Seasonal kissing and unfortunate penguins

January 7, 2019
Insight
So that’s it then. That was the season to be jolly, and now the thick grey coat of January threatens to envelop our mood.  But, if you’ll excuse our stubbornness,...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products

January 3, 2019
News
A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly chemical products.
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Chemical Engineering
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Machine learning spots viral reservoirs

November 28, 2018
News
A machine learning algorithm has been developed at The University of Glasgow that can predict viral reservoirs in the animal kingdom.Viruses circulate in animal and insect communities long before spreading...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
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Raise your game and a glass

November 16, 2018
Feature
Scientific advisor to proficiency testing at Fapas, Mark Sykes, discusses the benefits of proficiency testing and how this applies to wine testing laboratories The global wine market is predicted to grow...
Earth & Environmental
Food Science, In Depth
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Minding the gap

September 12, 2018
Feature
When it comes to visualising ultra-fast phenomena, especially biological processes, there is a problem – the Terahertz gap. Now, a pan-European consortium – the EuPRAXIA project – are collaborating to...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, In Depth, Physics
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The Physics Behind…

September 12, 2018
Insight
Everyone has a good book inside them goes the old adage. Well, Russ Swan certainly does, but getting it out of him was no easy task…The only copy in captivity...
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis
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Climbing Mt Peer Review: May AI help you with that?

August 9, 2018
Feature
In the second of our three part special on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, reviewers and scientists to  scientific publishing we learn how Medial charity LifeArc and science...
Uncategorised
In Depth
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Climbing Mt Peer Review: time to go clubbing?

July 30, 2018
Feature
In the first of our three-part series on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, reviewers and scientists toward scientific publishing we look at online preprints and journal clubs Assessing...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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An aquatic approach to space food

July 23, 2018
Insight
Just how do you haul enough food into space on extended manned missions without burning through vital fuel? The answer, says biologist Dr Miriam Knee, all comes down to zooplankton…The...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Bev, Food and Drink, Interviews
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Double trouble improves optical sensing at nanoscale

June 18, 2018
News
The precision of measuring nanoscopic structures could be substantially improved by utilising the quantum effect of interference.Using the approach, researchers from the universities of Warwick and Glasgow have devised a...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Nanotechnology, Physics, Quantum Physics
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Turning to extremes

May 21, 2018
Feature
A taste for pollution, extremophilic cooperation, and genetic clustering – a deep dive into the molecular biology of a rather special fungus led one group of researchers to a few...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Environment, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Pound of flesh

May 8, 2018
Insight
In light of the recent report from Goldman Sachs suggesting medical success is bad business, Russ Swan can’t help but wonder if we are living in a parallel dystopia  In...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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The art of the matter

April 13, 2018
Insight
Last month we chatted with Dr Iris Salecker of the Visual Circuit Assembly Laboratory to find out what happened when she let an artist loose in her lab… this month...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Geology, Interviews
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Can we really automate paper writing?

April 5, 2018
Feature
Every scientist has to adhere to the publish-or-perish maxim to some extent – the pressure to write papers is huge, and growing. Can automated writing really help prepare manuscripts?   Scientist’s...
Uncategorised
In Depth
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Ribosome distribution key to programming cells

April 5, 2018
News
By controlling the distribution of bacterial ribosomes, synthetic biologists say they can program cells to produce new drugs.Led by work at the University of Warwick and University of Surrey, new research...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Time to go at full charge?

February 19, 2018
Feature
Li-ion batteries rule the world of mobile devices, however, they are far from perfect. To fully understand how to achieve higher capacity and longer lasting life needs nothing less than...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Environment, In Depth
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Systems biology goes public

February 15, 2018
Feature
A personalised approach to medicine based on systems biology can only happen if there is a huge change in the way we democratize data. Data silos have to be a...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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