New microchip based on biomolecules is no alien technology
Imagine it’s a few years in the future, and you get the sniffles. What is it? you nervously wonder. Is this yet another variant of the...
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- Jun 3
Is it time to cancel menopause?
Sometime when a woman is in her 40s or 50s, the supply of eggs she was born with gradually degrades and runs out. Hormones like estrogen,...
- Jun 2
Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier at last
If you want to map the tiniest parts of a protein, you only have a few options: You can coax millions of individual protein molecules to...
- Jun 1
After my banking career wore me down, I found my way back to research—and myself
After 15 years working in banking, my body had given up. I was bedridden with pneumonia, and for the first time in years I had a reason...
- May 27
This Algae Powered a Computer for a Year With Just Water and Sunlight
Nearly three billion years ago, oceanic mats of cyanobacteria, called blue-green algae, transformed Earth’s atmosphere by converting...
- May 23
Longevity in dog years
“I would do anything for my little pom poms to live longer,” tweeted Yasmeen Roumie in late March. She’d just registered two keen-eyed...
- May 18
A beginner's guide to time travel
Everyone can travel in time. You do it whether you want to or not, at a steady rate of one second per second. You may think there's no...
- Apr 25
Largest Study of Cancer WGS Data Uncovers Dozens of New Mutational Signatures
In what is claimed to be the biggest study of its kind, scientists headed by a team at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) and the...
- Apr 20
As psychedelic drugs are poised to join the mainstream, what is the role of the prescriber?
The tpharmaceutical industry is constantly cutting research into psychiatric medicines, and the drug development pipeline for psychiatric...