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A very complex disturbance

January 14, 2019
Feature
Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actually influence natural selection doesn’t seem controversial. But the truth could well be...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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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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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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Split the difference

November 22, 2018
Insight
Our brains can integrate left and right functions... so why can't our society do the same?
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Influenza epidemic

November 12, 2018
Insight
We are overdue an influenza epidemic and the hunt is on for a universal flue vaccine. Here we look at some sickness stats...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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Understanding battleground earth

November 8, 2018
Feature
Falk Hildebrand takes through the first global study of the soil microbiome. This incredible international effort uncovered worrying human impact, antibiotic production and one hell of a microbial battle. You’ll...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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The new ice age

October 22, 2018
Feature
Cryo-storage is a multibillion-dollar industry, but surprisingly we are not very good at it. Here, Alice Fayter and Matthew Gibson talk extremophiles, ice and a new generation of biological cold...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Microfluidic devices

October 12, 2018
Insight
Organ on a chip technology is a new approach designed to created miniaturised physiological systems suitable for drug discovery – it relies on microfluidics. Here are some stats...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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