Articles tagged with "Biology"
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The new ice age
October 22, 2018
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...
Microfluidic devices
October 12, 2018
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...
The chips are down
October 9, 2018
Is it really possible to recreate a human on a chip? That is the ultimate aim of organ on a chip technology and we are getting closer. Here we explore...
An evolutionary perspective on laziness
September 28, 2018
The Science Lite team discover the ultimate excuse for laziness...You’ll forgive the whiff of smugness this month from the Science lite desk. Above and beyond our regular vainglorious airs that...
Brain surface
September 21, 2018
This amazing image shows the brain surface of a patient suffering with epilepsy.
A biomimetics boom
September 6, 2018
Biomimetics is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving human problems. Here are some stats reminding us that nature has been an...
Getting the right exposure
September 6, 2018
Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do to our health. That is the ambition of exposomics and it is an incredibly tough undertaking...
Seeing the whole picture
September 4, 2018
What makes one patient different from another one? Answering this question is a fundamental prerequisite for personalised medicine – and a multi-omic approach is the only way to get there...
Climbing Mt Peer Review: No shame in second place
August 16, 2018
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...
Climbing Mt Peer Review: time to go clubbing?
July 30, 2018
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...
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