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Climbing to the cloud
December 18, 2015
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...
A fascinating act of cellular cannibalism
December 17, 2015
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...
It simply isn’t cricket
November 17, 2015
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,...
The quantum weirdness powering biology
November 5, 2015
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?
Touching the sky
October 27, 2015
Bats are amongst the most agile of fliers – but can it really be their sense of touch which is key to this incredible ability?
Reaching out for the origins of life
October 22, 2015
Evidence suggests meteorites could have been an important source of the prebiotic compounds required for life on Earth. Now, after the success of ESA’s Rosetta mission, NASA are hoping to...
Characterising the future of medicine
October 13, 2015
Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. However, access to the expertise and methodologies required to characterise new nanomaterials is limited. Now,...
Better science with improved efficiency
September 3, 2015
Can laboratories really perform better science with improved efficiency and lower environmental impact? The results of the 2015 S-Lab Awards suggests that they can – but doing so requires a...
Finding the personal touch
August 18, 2015
The drive for personalised medicine requires an increasingly intimate understanding of the human genome – something impossible without high-performance computing. But, says Dr Robert Esnouf, the pace of research must...
1% battery, shutting down now. How biology can solve a very modern problem…
August 6, 2015
The key to the next big leap in battery technology is buried deep within our own cells says Dr Carol Lynn Curchoe – but can we harness it to create...
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