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Brain surface

September 21, 2018
This amazing image shows the brain surface of a patient suffering with epilepsy.

Getting the right exposure

September 6, 2018
Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do to our health. That is the ambition of exposomics and it is an incredibly tough undertaking...

The money man

June 15, 2018
We are all aware of the sweat, tears, and stress required to win a grant bid… but what does it look like from the other side? Jim Smith, Director of...

The flora and fauna of modern forensics

June 6, 2018
The postmortem microbiome, forensic botany and some very angry creationists… when Professor Nathan H. Lents isn’t pushing forensic science in a very interesting direction he is writing some rather fabulous...

Therapeutics LIVE!

May 21, 2018
It has access to the largest surface area of the body, alters drugs before they even enter the blood stream and could be a potent medicinal weapon… yet there is...

Everyone is invited to the science party

May 10, 2018
Dallas Campbell is a well-known science populariser and, this month, will be a key speaker at the Scientific Laboratory Show talking about society’s relationship with science, technology and engineering. We...

So near, yet so far

April 6, 2018
To PhD students and supervisors everywhere – it may be a very tough road, but help is at hand. Prey silence please… for the thesis whisperer I am the director...

Skin cell

March 8, 2018
This image of skin cell expressing an excessive amount of keratin has won Dr Bram van den Broek of The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) taking first place in 43rd annual...

Taking the fight to TB

February 15, 2018
What is needed to beat TB is an approach that both takes it’s biochemical defences, but also avoids antibiotic resistance. No easy task, but Timur Avkiran – a _Royal Commission...

Taking on the resistance

January 12, 2018
It is no secret that there is a desperate need for a response to antimicrobial resistance, so what are we doing about it? Not nearly enough and Dr Peter Jackson...

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