The bug hunters and the microbiome
21 June 2017Trevor Lawley and Gordon Dougan are bug hunters, albeit not the conventional kind. The bugs they collect are invisible to the naked eye. And even...
Family history and location of genetic fault affect risk for carriers of key breast and ovarian cancer genes
20 June 2017A large scale study of women carrying faults in important cancer genes should enable doctors to provide better advice and counselling for treatments and lifestyle...
Apollo's mission to drive therapeutic innovation
20 June 2017The stirrings of a revolution are starting to ripple through hundreds of laboratories. It’s a revolution that aims to result in new medicines – faster...
Patching up a broken heart
16 June 2017It is almost impossible for an injured heart to fully mend itself. Within minutes of being deprived of oxygen – as happens during a heart...
Take your medicine: how research into supply chains will help you take care of yourself
14 June 2017Researchers are working with pharmaceutical companies to make improvements across the whole supply chain, from how a pill is made to the moment it is...
Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library
14 June 2017A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children’s adaptation of one of Japan’s greatest works...
Human reproduction likely to be more efficient than previously thought
13 June 2017How difficult is it to conceive? According to a widely-held view, fewer than one in three embryos make it to term, but a new study...
The Longing of Belonging: African photography on show at MAA
13 June 2017A photography exhibition capturing the black South African Zionist community – the most popular religious denomination in the country – opens at the Museum of...
Future therapeutics: the hundred-year horizon scan
13 June 2017How will precision medicine define 21st-century therapeutics? What will future healthcare look like? And what actually lies ‘beyond the pill’? Professor Chris Lowe, inaugural Director...
Similarities in human and pig embryos provide clues to early stages of development
07 June 2017Scientists have shown how the precursors of egg and sperm cells – the cells that are key to the preservation of a species – arise...