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Understanding battleground earth

November 8, 2018
Falk Hildebrand takes through the first global study of the soil microbiome. This incredible international effort uncovered worrying human impact, antibiotic production and one hell of a microbial battle. You’ll...

Nanomedicine takes on wound dressings

August 9, 2018
Nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur the production of an antimicrobial peptide, a key step forward in the battle against surgical site infections. The findings by Oregon State...

See the big picture

June 25, 2018
The phenotype is making a strong comeback when it comes to screening cancer drugs for efficacy and toxicology – and this could be the key to a personalised approach. The...

Therapeutics LIVE!

May 21, 2018
It has access to the largest surface area of the body, alters drugs before they even enter the blood stream and could be a potent medicinal weapon… yet there is...

Ribosome distribution key to programming cells

April 5, 2018
By controlling the distribution of bacterial ribosomes, synthetic biologists say they can program cells to produce new drugs.Led by work at the University of Warwick and University of Surrey, new research...

Systems biology goes public

February 15, 2018
A personalised approach to medicine based on systems biology can only happen if there is a huge change in the way we democratize data. Data silos have to be a...

Bacterial nano-scaffold hails biofuel breakthrough

January 16, 2018
Cell biologists have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that they say can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications for the next generation of biofuel production.The research team,...

Cloudy with a chance of biology…

December 6, 2017
The delivery of membrane proteins to subcellular compartments is essential for eukaryotic life with errors causing severe diseases. Professor Michael Schrader tells us about his team’s work on the use...

Antibiotic-resistant genes discovered

November 30, 2017
Researchers have discovered previously unknown genes that make bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotics.

New bioprinting method developed

August 21, 2017
Scientists from the University of Oxford have created a new method to 3D print laboratory-grown cells to form living structures.

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