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Editor's comment | Those 'troublesome' female scientists...
Added: 12 Jun 2015
Female scientists have been hitting back at Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt this week after he made sex…
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Editor's comment | A bolt from the blue
Added: 8 May 2015
With a hugely surprising Tory majority now confirmed, investment in UK science could be the real wi…
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Ebola faces vaccine triple threat
Added: 21 Jan 2015
Three major pharmaceutical firms are leading the charge to develop the world’s first widely availab…
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Editor's comment: Big data or better drugs?
Added: 30 Oct 2014
If data taken from social media posts can be used to help curb the spread of HIV, will those most s…
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The best medicine: modernising drug discovery
Added: 24 Oct 2014
Unravelling the mysteries of human biological processes will help us develop medicines that can be …
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Editor's comment: The end of Ebola?
Added: 22 Oct 2014
As both Senegal and Nigeria are declared Ebola-free, is the deadly virus that has swept through muc…
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Editor's comment: Lessons in life science
Added: 8 Oct 2014
The UK life sciences sector has a great reason to be buoyant this week as the University of Bristol…