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Editor's comment | The awards debate
Added: 18 Feb 2015
Should awards be considered worthwhile recognition for great work, or a worthless distraction?
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…
Tide turns for microwave chemistry
Added: 5 Jan 2015
Microwave chemistry is fast becoming the most highly-prized asset in a laboratory’s peptide synthes…
Review: The future impact of antimicrobial resistance
Added: 11 Dec 2014
The first of five independent reviews that address the growing issue of antimicrobial resistance wa…
Editor's comment | The gift of genetics
Added: 3 Dec 2014
With Christmas fast approaching, what better gift is there than the £125 personal genetics kit from…
Editor's comment | Grappling with graphene
Added: 27 Nov 2014
Is the so-called ’wonder material’ graphene destined only to be the Jack of all Trades, and the Mas…
Shining a light on disease
Added: 24 Nov 2014
A more comprehensive awareness of flow cytometry technology could dramatically increase its utilisa…
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…
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 …
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…
The lab detectives
Added: 9 Oct 2014
Are crime-fighting scientists reaping the benefits of the latest analytical techniques, asks Louisa…
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…
Food, glorious food
Added: 24 Sep 2014
There are a number of different strategies the food analysis sector can employ to ensure it success…
Editor's comment: Fire in the belly
Added: 5 Sep 2014
The University of Nottingham (UON) faced a major setback last Friday as a blaze destroyed its iconi…
Editor's comment | Brain training
Added: 5 Sep 2014
Scientists have uncovered why exercise protects the brain against depression, while elsewhere an ea…
Editor's comment: The food fraud fiasco
Added: 5 Sep 2014
The long-awaited Elliott Review was published last week, but how will the promise of better food au…
Small and mighty
Added: 26 Aug 2014
Scientists from research institutions around the world are beginning to master the science of nanot…
Editor's comment: Feeling fresh?
Added: 20 Aug 2014
As the first year at university for many students approaches, so does the threat of ’freshers flu’.
Culture change
Added: 11 Aug 2014
Is more laboratory analysis and experimentation the key to making bioprocessing breakthroughs pay t…
Editor's comment: Cutting the mustard
Added: 1 Aug 2014
Monday 4th August 2014 marked 100 years since Britain entered the First World War. Aside from the u…
