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Iran joins the International Agency for Research on Cancer

June 7, 2018
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has welcomed the Islamic Republic of Iran as a new participating state.The membership of the Islamic Republic of Iran also reflects the continuing...

Turning to extremes

May 21, 2018
A taste for pollution, extremophilic cooperation, and genetic clustering – a deep dive into the molecular biology of a rather special fungus led one group of researchers to a few...

Time for some probing questions

May 15, 2018
Biomedical research is heavily dependent on utilising biological and chemical probes to understand the functionality of medically relevant proteins. Yet, when it comes to chemical probes, we aren’t being careful...

Rescuing curiosity

May 11, 2018
Research in commercial labs and companies is increasingly goal driven – but is there still room for curiosity? And how can we harness a question-based approach as we become ever...

Spin-out gurus move to new digs

May 11, 2018
Oxford Sciences Innovation, which commercialises the science and technology from the University of Oxford, is expanding at The Oxford Science Park.Driven by its rapid rate of growth and creation of...

The feel good factor

April 17, 2018
A painfully direct question from a paralyzed patient set Professor Samantha Butler on a path to understand the neurobiology of touch and how we might rebuild damaged sensory circuits to...

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...

The future character of medicine

March 23, 2018
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. The...

Organ-on-chip tech offers Hep B hope

March 16, 2018
Scientists at Imperial College London have become the first in the world to test how pathogens interact with artificial human organs.The team used an artificial liver __- originally developed at...

Heroin vaccine close to human trials

March 9, 2018
Scientists from the US say they have achieved a major milestone toward designing a safe vaccine to both treat heroin addiction and block lethal overdose of the drug.Their research, published...

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