Biotech & pharma
Cancer “smart drugs” may not be so smart: Yale researchers
By By Karen N. Peart | 17 May 2011
New biosensor microchip could speed up drug development: Stanford researchers
13 May 2011
A new biosensor microchip that could hold more than 100,000 magnetically sensitive nanosensors could speed up drug development markedly, Stanford researchers say
Sex hormone precursor inhibits brain inflammation
By By Scott LaFee | 13 May 2011
The slow road to a synapse
By By Scott LaFee | 12 May 2011
Genome of marine organism reveals hidden secrets
By By Mario Aguilera | 10 May 2011
When the lungs come under pressure
09 May 2011
Overweight at mid life may raise dementia risk
05 May 2011
First lupus breakthrough in 50 years
05 May 2011
Amygdala detects spontaneity in human behaviour
04 May 2011
Finding molecular targets of an HIV drug used in cancer therapy
By By Debra Kain | 29 Apr 2011
Mother’s diet can alter the function of her child’s DNA
28 Apr 2011
Scientists have discovered that a mother’s nutrition during pregnancy can strongly influence her child’s risk of obesity many years later.
The bacterial thermostat
27 Apr 2011
NeuroImage: multiplexing in the visual brain
26 Apr 2011
Scientists prove new technology to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes
23 Apr 2011
Researchers have demonstrated how some genetic changes can be introduced into large laboratory mosquito populations over the span of a few generations by just a small number of modified mosquitoes.
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