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Korea claims advance on 3D-printed corneas

May 29, 2019
A research team in South Korea have used a 3D printer to improve the transparency of artificial corneas.

The secret microbiome

May 21, 2019
Auto-immune disease, obesity and even cancer… the microbiome is clearly involved in much of human health. No surprise really, we are as much microbe as we are human. What is...

Human microbiome

May 15, 2019
There is so much to be discovered about the human microbiome, but what we do know is pretty amazing...

Climate change boosts banana disease

May 10, 2019
Climate change has been found to raise the risk of a fungal disease in banana crops. The University of Exeter found that higher temperatures and an increase in atmospheric moisture...

Flea bacteria

May 9, 2019
This digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a number of yellow _Yersinia pestis_bacteria.

Making a value judgement

May 7, 2019
Bioethics has become a global endeavour – and a good thing too says Catherine Joynson. As we push the boundaries of what we do with biology, we need to ask...

A very fertile mind

May 3, 2019
Professor Simon Fishel worked with the team that created the first IVF baby in 1978 and with Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir Robert Edwards. His new book offers a glimpse...

One at a time

April 29, 2019
Watching biological processes one molecule at a time is an incredibly difficult task… but it is getting easier says Dr Joanna Andrecka, and it could turn drug discovery on its...

Better tattoo be safe

April 25, 2019
As hipster cool reaches ‘peak-ink’ the scientific literature is awash with studies on the safety of tattoos, but wonders Russ Swan isn’t this all a bit late… and is there...

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