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Streamlining critical workflows

January 4, 2021
Research technician, Yvette Hoade, explains how electronic pipettes and pipetting robots help speed up her workflow when investigating mutations associated with different blood diseases that can lead to leukaemia.

Vital biodiversity collections face drop in specimen deposits

January 1, 2021
Kansas researchers argue that expanded biodiversity infrastructure will be an essential front line of defense in pandemic preparedness in the wake of COVID-19 as preserved specimens capture the community of...

Kinship is beneficial – even for anti-social squirrels

December 23, 2020
Never rattle at your neighbours, killing them could endanger your health... if you're a red squirrel. Have you ever seen more than one squirrel together anywhere except an artificial feeding...

RNA molecules are masters of their own destiny

December 22, 2020
How does the cell know when to stop transcribing? What is the purpose of noncoding RNAs? Another win for multi-disciplinary research as results from the Whitehead Institute suggest that the...

A tale of tusks… or a ‘herd of treasure’?

December 21, 2020
Not all shipwrecked treasure is gold and silver. One might think of a sunken herd, rather than a sunken hoard, as more than a hundred elephant tusks raised alongside the...

Healthcare takes on psychedelics – an emerging market led by Europe

December 17, 2020
More and more revolutionary mind-altering medicines and treatments based on active ingredients previously spurned as street drugs, such as ketamine and psilocybin (magic mushrooms), are gaining acceptance with regulators. Clinical...

Global clinical research accreditation and certification mark

December 16, 2020
New evidence-based clinical research certification mark to set a global blenchmark for quality and consistency across operational standards and patient experience. Accreditation will facilitate the development and alignment of site...

‘Don’t try this at home!’ – a tale of caution from the BMJ’s Christmas issue

December 16, 2020
The BMJ take a cautious, christmassy look at the total toxicity of George's Marvellous Medicine and find it may 'kill you to death' many times over. A bit like an...

Beware the prehistoric beast of Bristol; Thecodontosaurus’ brain modelled

December 15, 2020
The beautifully preserved braincase of Bristol's dog-sized dinausaur, Thecodontosaurus, was used to render a 3-D model of its brain. Results show that this agile beast had great big eyes -...

A Christmas story for Resusci Annie

December 14, 2020
After more than a hundred years, the girl who seems always to be unresponsive to either voice or pain checks, unconsious and in need of CPR is given a story...

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