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The money man

June 15, 2018
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...

A real fantastic voyage

June 14, 2018
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...

Therapeutics LIVE!

May 21, 2018
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...

Turning to extremes

May 21, 2018
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...

Time for some probing questions

May 15, 2018
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...

Rescuing curiosity

May 11, 2018
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...

Pound of flesh

May 8, 2018
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...

At the risk of being an idiot

April 23, 2018
Time for the Science lite desk to admit, as much as it might pain us, that we are idiots.We do idiotic things. Many idiotic things. In fact we have lost...

The feel good factor

April 17, 2018
A painfully direct question from a paralyzed patient set Professor Samantha Butler on a path to understand the neurobiology of touch and how we might rebuild damaged sensory circuits to...

Mosquito larva

April 5, 2018
This image of Mosquito larva gave Charles Krebs of Issaquah in Washington image of distinction in the 43rd annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.

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