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Climbing Mt Peer Review: No shame in second place

August 16, 2018
Feature
In the final of our three part special on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, reviewers and scientists to  scientific publishing, Maiko Kitaoka tells us that nothing less than...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Climbing Mt Peer Review: time to go clubbing?

July 30, 2018
Feature
In the first of our three-part series on the changing attitudes and approaches of publishers, reviewers and scientists toward scientific publishing we look at online preprints and journal clubs Assessing...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Toxic shock!

June 21, 2018
Feature
When a species other than c.botulinum was found producing its famous toxin – only the second report of a new botulinum toxin to be found in the past 40 years...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Food & Bev, Food and Drink, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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The money man

June 15, 2018
Insight
We are all aware of the sweat, tears, and stress required to win a grant bid… but what does it look like from the other side? Jim Smith, Director of...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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A real fantastic voyage

June 14, 2018
Feature
When many still think that swarms of medical nanobots in the body are the stuff of science fiction, one group is going further and placing individual nanomotors actually within human...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Chemical Engineering, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Engineering, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Therapeutics LIVE!

May 21, 2018
Insight
It has access to the largest surface area of the body, alters drugs before they even enter the blood stream and could be a potent medicinal weapon… yet there is...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Turning to extremes

May 21, 2018
Feature
A taste for pollution, extremophilic cooperation, and genetic clustering – a deep dive into the molecular biology of a rather special fungus led one group of researchers to a few...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Environment, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Time for some probing questions

May 15, 2018
Feature
Biomedical research is heavily dependent on utilising biological and chemical probes to understand the functionality of medically relevant proteins. Yet, when it comes to chemical probes, we aren’t being careful...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Rescuing curiosity

May 11, 2018
Feature
Research in commercial labs and companies is increasingly goal driven – but is there still room for curiosity? And how can we harness a question-based approach as we become ever...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Pound of flesh

May 8, 2018
Insight
In light of the recent report from Goldman Sachs suggesting medical success is bad business, Russ Swan can’t help but wonder if we are living in a parallel dystopia  In...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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