Latest In Depth
What’s your poison?
Sarah Lawton | Added: 11 May 2020
Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-mast…
The physics of restoration
Sarah Lawton | Added: 1 May 2020
Art plays a significant part in modern society, and the art of restoration is crucial to safeguardi…
Going (anti)viral
Added: 28 Apr 2020
Dermot Martin catches us up with the rapid reaction of the biopharma community to meet the Covid-19…
Going round in circles
Added: 9 Apr 2020
Single use plastics are a staple in the lab – but they are also are part of the plastics pollution …
Coronavirus – is it just “a type of ‘flu”?
Added: 2 Apr 2020
The virology, genomics, epidemiology and medical response – Chief Virology Examiner at the Institut…
Shining a light on diabetes
Added: 17 Mar 2020
The complexity of glycogen storage diseases like diabetes means a reductionist approach just won’t …
Does gene therapy put safety second?
Added: 15 Mar 2020
The delivery of gene therapies relies almost entirely on viral vectors. So, when it comes to the pr…
Breaking the mould with jellyfish
Added: 12 Mar 2020
The study of cells has perhaps been the most impactful way we have developed modern medicine Here w…
Enemy at the gates
Added: 4 Mar 2020
As coronavirus continues to spread around the globe and vaccine hesitancy threatens the return of l…
Caught in the long grass
Added: 19 Feb 2020
Forensic botany, the use of plants as evidence in serious crime cases, is a little-known specialist…
The new frontline
Added: 13 Feb 2020
Using big data analysis and knowledge networks is the new frontier in combating infectious disease …
(A)I must insist
Added: 10 Feb 2020
In a data-rich research landscape – only a mix of man and machine will give us hope of extracting k…
A new landscape for CRISPR?
Added: 6 Feb 2020
As a Chinese court imposes a three-year jail term on a scientist who used gene editing on at least …
Taming the smoking gun
Added: 4 Feb 2020
With the explosion in popularity of vaping, safety regulators have been scrambling to catch up. One…
A certain ratio
Added: 27 Jan 2020
Has CRISPR just given us the ability to change the sex ratio in mammals? Dermot Martin reports on n…
Can we afford to cure the incurable?
Added: 14 Jan 2020
Putting us on the very cusp of a medical revolution – gene therapy could cure the incurable. But as…
Shifting the access barrier
Added: 8 Jan 2020
Are scientists put on a pedestal? And does that put people off engaging with their science? As a na…
Time to be selective
Added: 15 Dec 2019
As the AMR crisis looms large, we would do well to look beyond classic drug targets says Dr Thomas …
Moving from push to pull
Added: 9 Dec 2019
Nothing less than an entirely new model of drug development is needed if we are to create new antib…
A very positive destruction
Added: 2 Dec 2019
Totally eradicating disease is a very rare thing indeed and requires, among other things, global co…
