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Love life, love remote working: applying biophilic principles to your home office

January 27, 2021
Derived in 1964 by the social psychologist Erich Fromm, 'biophilia' means to love life. Here, architect Robert Hopkins, follows up on his article in our January issue that looks at...

Antiviral coating kills viruses and bacteria for product lifetime

January 26, 2021
Can you imagine a world where you wouldn't have to worry about disease transmission from surfaces such as door handles, keyboards, bank notes, and even doctor's gowns and facemasks? Matt...

Why cells don’t get stuck – generalised cell migration and motility modelled mathematically

January 22, 2021
Cell movement has now been mathematically modelled by an interdisciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists. Understanding this fundamental process will allow scientists to predict cell behaviours and improve targeted...

2020’s top 100 highlights in research and scholarly commentary

January 21, 2021
Good science thrives - even during a pandemic! We all know what dominated most of our thoughts in 2020, but many scientists continued to focus on driving ideas within their...

Ousting spiritualist clairvoyance with scientific clairaudience

January 20, 2021
Hearing voices can be a serious business - both for those afflicted and anyone they might choose to draw into their experiences when translating the phenomenon as a connection to...

Laser-triggered chemical adhesion for tissue engineering of replacement organs

January 19, 2021
Laser-triggered chemical adhesion used to build proteins onto biological polymer scaffolding to bring artificial but functional, laboratory-grown replacement organs one step closer to a reality. Researchers have found lasers and...

Foundational science of the future

January 13, 2021
Traditionally pharma has been focused on developing small molecules and chemicals. Here, David Ferrick gives his view on immunology and cell therapy as a rapidly emerging pillar of science and...

Interferon-induced ACE2 production shown to be safe and even effective against COVID-19

January 11, 2021
While ACE2 proteins are known to be the vehicle used by COVID-19 to enter the nose and lungs, the previously worrying increase in ACE2 found to occur as a result...

Successful AI and ML framework for repurposing drug candidates

January 8, 2021
Researchers apply causal inference theory and deep learning algorithms to sort through confounding data and successfully pinpoint drug candidates for treatment repurposing. The new framework enables artificial intelligence and machine...

Inhouse genetic analysis

January 7, 2021
Here, Dr Philip Hargreaves (business development) and Gabriela Saldanha (product management) discuss the drivers and lessons learned behind Promega's successful development collaboration with Hitachi High-Tech…

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