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Old dog, new tricks

June 21, 2016
Feature
Have we overlooked some incredible pharmacological properties of aspirin? Martyna Petrulyte takes a look at the growing body of evidence and wonders if patients will soon be able to ask:...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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From the front line

May 19, 2016
Feature
We hear from Professor Daouda Ndiaye – a Senegalese researcher taking on malaria – about a new test promising to save lives by being faster, more accurate and easier to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Did the dinosaurs suffer with malaria?

May 16, 2016
Insight
A new analysis of the prehistoric origin of malaria suggests that it evolved in insects at least 100 million years ago, and the first vertebrate hosts of this disease were...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Come on feel the noise

April 18, 2016
Insight
Dr Adele Murrell fills us in on a new approach to making sense of "junk" DNA and RNA "noise" to fight cancer.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews
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The pace and pattern of being

April 8, 2016
Feature
Maturation in mammals varies widely, but the exact reasons why are still unclear. A new method of monitoring growth may provide the answer.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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What to do with a problem like Zika?

April 6, 2016
Feature
The current Zika outbreak first began in Brazil in April 2015. It has been strongly linked to newborn microcephaly and also Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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A personal interpretation

March 25, 2016
Feature
There is a clear move away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to medicine and instead a new personalised medicine strategy is becoming more important. Mike Furness explains more...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Data takes on the dopers

March 23, 2016
Feature
New studies looking at the subtle changes that can occur when human blood is stored could help put an end to blood doping.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Symptom or cause? Autism and immune dysfunction

March 18, 2016
Feature
There are tantalising clues that anomalies in immune function may be related to autism spectrum disorders. In unpicking this connection, one lab needed a new approach to the immune assay…
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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A map is worth a thousand words

February 26, 2016
Feature
Vibrational spectroscopy expert Dr Elizabeth Carter tells us how Raman mapping can help examine the what, where and maybe even the why of complex samples.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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