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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...

A distinctly combinatorial approach

February 12, 2018
As energy costs go up, will we be able to leverage the power of the sun to produce chemicals? Meet Dr Timothy Noël, who last year scooped the DECHEMA award...

T’is the season to be queasy

February 7, 2018
As the flu season continues to wreak havoc – with so-called ‘Aussie flu’ on the rampage _– we get to the science behind the headlines Influenza is a complicated and therefore...

Report reveals ‘urgent need’ for improved drug discovery productivity

February 6, 2018
A new report by two UK bioscience organisations suggests that despite great strengths, the UK drug discovery community needs urgent action to make it more productive.The joint report, State of...

Venture capital vital to future of biotech

January 23, 2018
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has released a report suggesting that pharma companies investing in emerging start-ups is now a key source of capital for biotech innovation in...

Turning back the evolutionary clock

January 18, 2018
A glance back in evolutionary time, cancer diagnostics and a deep understanding of our connection to our mammalian ancestors… when a diverse group of biologists met over Skype, their interest...

Old dog, new tricks for TB antibiotic

January 17, 2018
Tuberculosis could be fought more effectively with future drugs – thanks to new research into an old antibiotic by University of Warwick and Francis Crick Institute.Professor David Roper at Warwick’s...

Physiological role found for Alzheimers protein

January 10, 2018
A team working on neurodevelopment of axon growth have uncovered a role for TAU, a protein linked to neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease.Scientists from the The Scripps Research Institute in...

Promising gene therapy treatment for blindness

December 7, 2017
University of Oxford scientists have shown how gene therapy could reverse blindness. Most causes of untreatable blindness occur from the loss of millions of light sensitive photoreceptor cells that line...

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...

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