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Taking the fight to TB

February 15, 2018
What is needed to beat TB is an approach that both takes it’s biochemical defences, but also avoids antibiotic resistance. No easy task, but Timur Avkiran – a _Royal Commission...

Systems biology goes public

February 15, 2018
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...

Bacteria used to block dengue and Zika

February 15, 2018
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have found a bacterial strain which blocks dengue and Zika virus transmission from mosquitoes. The team show that a novel strain of the inherited bacteria...

Brain differences associated with epilepsy

February 14, 2018
Epilepsy is associated with thickness and volume differences in the grey matter of several brain regions, according to new research.The largest-ever neuroimaging study of people with epilepsy, led by UCL...

Funding to target G-proteins

February 13, 2018
Domainex, a privately-owned drug discovery services company, has been awarded funding to develop a new biophysical screening method for G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).The company will receive £118,000 from the UK’s...

UK company awarded for diagnostic breathalyzer

February 12, 2018
A UK diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, has won a global award for its Breath Biopsy platform.As one of the three winners of the global Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis...

Cancer deal struck with Merck

February 9, 2018
Cancer Research UK and The Institute of Cancer Research have announced a multi-project collaboration deal with Merck to discover and develop new anticancer drugs.The parties will collaborate on three independent research...

T’is the season to be queasy

February 7, 2018
As the flu season continues to wreak havoc – with so-called ‘Aussie flu’ on the rampage _– we get to the science behind the headlines Influenza is a complicated and therefore...

Boom year for UK life science investment

February 7, 2018
An analysis of investment in life sciences in European capital cities has shown London raised the most in 2017, reaching nearly £1bn.The findings are from MedCity, set up to promote...

Watching DNA being read with cryo-EM

February 7, 2018
Scientists have unveiled images of the DNA code being read and interpreted – revealing new detail about one of the fundamental processes of life.Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research...

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