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OpinionAre new drugs better than existing ones?
Should companies be made to change the way they run clinical trials?
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PodcastBook Club – Superior: The Return of Race Science
How different from each other are we all really? Angela Saini looks at the issues, claims and evidence behind race science
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BusinessHexagonFab cracks nanomanufacturing for pocket diagnostics
HexagonFab’s founders say their graphene-based sensors are set to become the lab tests that don’t need a physical lab
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ResearchSulfonated polymer kills drug-resistant microbes in minutes
New application for an existing material
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ResearchCrispr treatment reverses muscular dystrophy in mice
Upregulated gene triggers laminin-α1 protein production, reviving paralysed limbs
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SponsoredThrough the looking glass: a digital future for healthcare
As the digital revolution continues to disrupt even the world’s most established business sectors, the pharmaceutical industry will need to shift and adapt if it is to realise its vision for the future of healthcare
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ResearchBacterial lasso gets to the heart of stem cell retention problem
A sticky bacterial protein on the surface of stem cells increases homing and retention on damaged heart tissue
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PodcastBook Club – The Periodic Table
100 years on, we examine the effect of Primo Levi’s masterpiece The Periodic Table
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ResearchNew ligand removes uranium from bones
A treatment that mops up uranium in the bones and kidneys of mice could help humans exposed to radiation
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ResearchPoly(ionic liquid)s respond like taste buds in new saccharide detection system
System that exploits non-covalent interactions between ionic liquid moieties and carbohydrates could have multiple real-world applications