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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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Perfecting the inside job

January 6, 2019
Insight
An industrial fellowship helped Jonathan Vince explore how to avoid the grim side-effects of traditional cancer treatment using microspheres and internal radiation   Cancer. It’s the one of the few words which...
Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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Brain pacemaker controls optogenetics

January 3, 2019
News
A miniature wireless implant could allow more efficient optogenetics in the human brain, according to a University of Arizona study.The “brain pacemaker” is implanted under the scalp by way of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics
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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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Self-lighting Christmas trees with synthetic DNA

December 24, 2018
News
 CRISPR gene editing could be used to develop self-lighting Christmas trees, according to University of Warwick scientists.Engineers and biologists the university’s Interactive Synthetic Biology Centre used virtual reality to demonstrate...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
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DeepMind AI predicts 3D protein shapes

December 3, 2018
News
A British technology company has used AI to predict the 3D structure of a protein based on its genetic sequence.DeepMind used its AlphaFold AI system focused on modelling target shapes...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Proteomics & Genomics
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A right royal institution: Professor Aoife McLysaght

November 29, 2018
Insight
This year, The Royal Institution Christmas lectures will, for the first time in its 194-year history, feature not one but two lecturers. Accompanying Professor Alice Roberts for her Who am...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Finding the next generation of cancer therapy

November 28, 2018
Insight
Having been awarded a grant from The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 – Carlos Julià is determined to reduce the cost of next generation cancer therapies by using...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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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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Draw-your-own electrodes speed up microdetection

November 28, 2018
News
A new rapid prototyping method could speed up development of microdetection devices for sensing biological molecules.The method, developed by researchers at Imperial College London, allows intricate electrode patterns to be...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics
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