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Reading the immune system

February 14, 2019
Insight
It is a combination of academia and industry which is helping Aleksandr Kovaltsuk read the logbook of the immune system…In the last three decades, scientists have developed various techniques to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Disease-fighting microrobots

February 8, 2019
News
Tiny ingestible robots have been developed to deliver drugs directly to diseased tissue. The devices are made of hydrogel nanocomposites containing magnetic nanoparticles, allowing them to be controlled via an...
Life Sciences
Medical Diagnostics
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Shooting down HIV hope

February 4, 2019
Insight
When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, all passengers and crew were killed – among them Dr Joep Lange who had dedicated his life to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Perfecting the inside job

January 6, 2019
Insight
An industrial fellowship helped Jonathan Vince explore how to avoid the grim side-effects of traditional cancer treatment using microspheres and internal radiation   Cancer. It’s the one of the few words which...
Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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Brain pacemaker controls optogenetics

January 3, 2019
News
A miniature wireless implant could allow more efficient optogenetics in the human brain, according to a University of Arizona study.The “brain pacemaker” is implanted under the scalp by way of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics
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Taking the wider view

January 3, 2019
Insight
The ‘quality’ of a research paper is a tricky thing to quantify – journal impact factors and citations have gone some way to do this, but they don’t take into...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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A right royal institution: Professor Aoife McLysaght

November 29, 2018
Insight
This year, The Royal Institution Christmas lectures will, for the first time in its 194-year history, feature not one but two lecturers. Accompanying Professor Alice Roberts for her Who am...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Finding the next generation of cancer therapy

November 28, 2018
Insight
Having been awarded a grant from The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 – Carlos Julià is determined to reduce the cost of next generation cancer therapies by using...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical
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Draw-your-own electrodes speed up microdetection

November 28, 2018
News
A new rapid prototyping method could speed up development of microdetection devices for sensing biological molecules.The method, developed by researchers at Imperial College London, allows intricate electrode patterns to be...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics
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AI could reduce gadolinium dose in MRI

November 26, 2018
News
AI is being used to reduce the dose of a contrast agent that is often left in the body after an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam.A team at Stanford University...
Life Sciences
Medical Diagnostics
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