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A personal interpretation

March 25, 2016
There is a clear move away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to medicine and instead a new personalised medicine strategy is becoming more important. Mike Furness explains more...

Data takes on the dopers

March 23, 2016
New studies looking at the subtle changes that can occur when human blood is stored could help put an end to blood doping.

Symptom or cause? Autism and immune dysfunction

March 18, 2016
There are tantalising clues that anomalies in immune function may be related to autism spectrum disorders. In unpicking this connection, one lab needed a new approach to the immune assay…

Mosquitoes’ reproductive cycle potential drug target

March 17, 2016
US scientists are looking at ways to influence how mosquitoes mate to control the diseases they spread such as dengue fever, chikungunya and the Zika virus.

A map is worth a thousand words

February 26, 2016
Vibrational spectroscopy expert Dr Elizabeth Carter tells us how Raman mapping can help examine the what, where and maybe even the why of complex samples.

When does ageing become disease?

February 8, 2016
Our understanding of the molecular process of ageing is growing, as such our understanding of risk from specific ‘age-related’ diseases is becoming clearer says Professor Jamie Timmons.

Antidepressants double suicide risk in children

February 4, 2016
Children and teenagers who take one of the five most commonly prescribed antidepressants have a doubled risk of depression and suicide, a team of Danish researchers have found.

Cholesterol reducing drug could positively affect Parkinson’s

January 25, 2016
A trial has begun in the UK to see the effects of cholesterol lowering drug, Simvastin, in those afflicted with Parkinson’s.

Swimming out from an evolutionary shadow

January 14, 2016
We hear how the humble turtle has been problematic to classify correctly in an evolutionary context, and how hard work and a spot of luck has changed this…

Antibiotic resistance could hold key for treating amyloid diseases

January 14, 2016
Researchers have discovered a method of using antibiotic resistance to find chemicals that stop amyloids – misfolded proteins - forming.

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