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Artificial intelligence speeds up drug discovery

March 3, 2015
News
An artificially intelligent robot can automatically discover new drugs, improving the cost and speeding up the process.Engineers at the University of Manchester used a method of smart screening and developed...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Computer Science
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The big squeeze

March 3, 2015
Feature
The physical properties of proteins, so vital for cellular function, are intimately linked to the cellular environment – a very crowded place indeed. But has this relationship been neglected in...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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‘Call for Targets’ of respiratory diseases

March 2, 2015
News
MRC Technology has announced a ‘call for targets’ to find new therapeutics for the treatment of respiratory diseases. The MRC is looking for academic researchers worldwide to accelerate the treatment...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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The wonder stuff – How peptide hydrogels could change the face of biomedicine

January 20, 2015
Feature
With a list of characteristics and applications long enough to make most bioengineers take notice, ultrashort peptide hydrogels are fast becoming the toast of biomedicine. Here, a team from Institute...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Designing complex 3D DNA scaffolds

January 15, 2015
News
A new computer model allows the design of the most complex 3D DNA shapes by building DNA scaffold and customised synthetic strands of DNA. Biological engineers from at the Massachusetts...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology
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Genomic switches hidden in ‘Loop-ome’

January 14, 2015
News
By developing 3D maps of folded genomes scientists have discovered that a structural basis for gene regulation can produce different cell types. A team of researchers at Harvard University have...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Microbiology
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A new lease of life

January 13, 2015
Feature
When a large scientific company decides to leave a manufacturing or R&D plant, what happens to the state-of-the-art facilities which only these big companies can afford?
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Signalling pathway found to reduce brain cancer proliferation

January 7, 2015
News
A common signalling pathway has been found to prevent the formation of specific brain cancers.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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The all seeing AI

January 6, 2015
Feature
Stephen Hawking and other high profile scientists have recently issuing stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by advanced artificial intelligence. But aside from being a source of existential...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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A meeting of microscopic strengths

December 24, 2014
Feature
Integrated correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) offers the possibility to study the same area on a sample using both fluorescence and electron microscopy. One of the challenges associated with...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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