Biotech & pharma

‘Titin’ gene mutations will help identify patients at risk of heart failure

15 Jan 2015

Bioengineers discover knob to dial up fitter cells

13 Jan 2015

New research on what the nose ‘knows’ reveals an unexpected simplicity

13 Jan 2015

Defying textbook science, study finds new role for proteins

12 Jan 2015

Darwinian’ test uncovers an antidepressant’s hidden toxicity

10 Jan 2015

Evolving bacteria in beer, bread may lead to new treatments

09 Jan 2015

US scientists discover “game changer” antibiotic to take on super bugs

08 Jan 2015

UK farmer forced to butcher aggressive ‘Nazi’ cows

06 Jan 2015

Nazi scientists had actually managed to breed a herd of genetically-engineered cows which have turned out to be so aggressive that a UK farmer has been forced to chop up half his stock into meat as they they repeatedly tried to kill his staff

Using light to understand the brain

06 Jan 2015

Time adds a wrinkle to nature and nurture

05 Jan 2015

3-D printed molecule models solve protein puzzles

02 Jan 2015

Study points to bats as possible source of Ebola outbreak in West Africa

01 Jan 2015

Suven Life Sciences receives product patents in Eurasia, Japan and Mexico

01 Jan 2015

Headaches at times could be only symptom of brain tumour: Study

30 Dec 2014

Health ministry evaluating stem cell donor registry

30 Dec 2014

ADA lowers BMI threshold for diabetes screening Asian-Americans

29 Dec 2014

Scientists uncover how lung cancer spreads

26 Dec 2014

Early-stage research could one day help block cancer spread by finding ways to diagnose the disease earlier, when treatment would more likely succeed and the cancer is less likely to have spread

Mix of bacteria in gut may depend more on diet than genes

By By Jeffrey Norris | 24 Dec 2014

Big-data analysis reveals gene sharing in mice

19 Dec 2014

Big-data analysis reveals gene sharing in mice

19 Dec 2014

New class of synthetic molecules mimics antibodies

17 Dec 2014

X-ray laser acts as tool to track life’s chemistry

13 Dec 2014

Scientists have been moving steadily toward their ultimate goal of following life-essential reactions step by step in real time, at the scale of atoms and electrons

Scientists discover brain mechanism that drives us to eat glucose

By By Sam Wong | 13 Dec 2014

Biomarker discovery sheds new light on heart attack risk of arthritis drugs

11 Dec 2014

Stroke damage mechanism identified

11 Dec 2014