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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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Self-assembling peptide amphiphileprotein membrane

February 8, 2016
Insight
Scanning electron microscopy image of a self-assembling peptide amphiphile/protein membrane.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Focal Point, Pharmaceutical
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When does ageing become disease?

February 8, 2016
Feature
Our understanding of the molecular process of ageing is growing, as such our understanding of risk from specific ‘age-related’ diseases is becoming clearer says Professor Jamie Timmons.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Swimming out from an evolutionary shadow

January 14, 2016
Feature
We hear how the humble turtle has been problematic to classify correctly in an evolutionary context, and how hard work and a spot of luck has changed this…
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Climbing to the cloud

December 18, 2015
Feature
Bioinformatics needs to change says Dr Thomas Connor and for that to happen we need to look to the cloud. Here he tells us about CLIMB – the world’s largest...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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A fascinating act of cellular cannibalism

December 17, 2015
Feature
After a century of observing strange acts of cellular cannibalism, Jo Durgan and Oliver Florey tell us how close we are to understanding entosis, and what it may mean for...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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It simply isn’t cricket

November 17, 2015
Feature
It is well-established that parasites can affect the behaviour of their hosts, but can a parasitical worm really get a cricket to shut-up? Dr Megan Wise de Valdez thinks so,...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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The quantum weirdness powering biology

November 5, 2015
Feature
It allows particles to be in two places at once, pass through impenetrable barriers or maintain spooky connections with other particles – but can quantum physics really govern biology?
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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