Articles tagged with "Drugs & Pharmaceuticals"

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Collaborate to accumulate

July 3, 2017
Pharmaceutical research and development has historically been shrouded in mystery, a secretive activity conducted behind closed doors to protect commercial advantage. But, as big data continues to transform the industry...

A radical solution

June 27, 2017
Understanding reactive oxygen species is vital for tackling many diseases – but you need to catch them first. Here Dr Kalina Ranguelova talks us through this challenge and a possible...

New non-animal toxicity test

May 9, 2017
Researchers in Sweden have developed a method to reduce the need for animals in toxicological testing.

Breakthrough raises hope for anti-ageing drug

April 5, 2017
Scientists have identified part of a molecular process that enables cells to repair DNA damage, raising hopes of a drug that reverses ageing or enables astronauts to travel to Mars.

Is this the dawn of the groupOME?

April 4, 2017
Can the genome of the people around us really have a direct influence on our own health? Amelie Baud of the EMBL-EBI thinks so. We caught up with her to...

Antibiotics linked to bee population dive

March 23, 2017
The mystery around increasing bee deaths and colony collapse disorder may be linked to antibiotics.

A taste for understanding

March 7, 2017
As consumers become ever more label savvy, demand for foods with fewer ingredients is growing – but how to achieve this whilst keeping food cheap, convenient, and tasty?

A right royal success

March 6, 2017
Following a fellowship award from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Alice Hagan set about developing an oncological knock-out punch. Here she talks microbeads, cancer starvation, and the...

How’s your game?

February 21, 2017
Reliable, precise and trusted – however, a pipette performs only as well as the operator’s technique allows. As demand accuracy and precision increases, the importance of understanding and developing optimal...

Ruling in CRISPR patent battle

February 20, 2017
As a key verdict in the legal battle over exploitation of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology is handed down disagreement still abounds…

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