All articles by Bea Perks – Page 2
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FeatureGold fever
The catalytic potential of gold nanoparticles was overlooked for years, but researchers are making up for lost time, writes Bea Perks
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Liquid crystals stand up for DNA detection
Liquid crystals that detect DNA sequence could be developed into cheap, portable detectors as small as a wristwatch
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Fighting food fraud with science
Bea Perks meets some of the scientists subjecting our food's credentials to forensic examination
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UK science moves into new department
Cabinet reshuffle creates Department for Innovations, Universities and Skills (DIUS)
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Mimicking biophysics with water droplets
Drops of water have been micro-engineered into 'protocells'
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EU chemicals legislation comes into force
Reach gets underway, as the new European Chemicals Agency starts operations in Helsinki
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Eastern blot on the landscape
Molecular biologists have a Southern blot, a northern blot and a western blot, but is there space on the compass for an eastern?
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Tomatoes once tasted like cucumbers
Wild tomatoes may have lost their unusual flavour when the fruit was domesticated
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Fuelling China's future
Min Enze helped to kickstart China's industrial boom. Fifty years on, his research focuses on tackling the environmental damage of development, reports Bea Perks
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Protein's non-natural alternative
Chemists have synthesised what they say is the first 'remarkably protein like' beta-peptide quaternary structure.
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Expert guidance on clinical trial safety
Recommendations and new test in light of Phase I disaster
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Surf's up for unstable electron beams
Physicists in France have used a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas.
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Riboswitching off bacterial infection
Solving a 50-year old mystery in antibiotics development points to new hope for anthrax treatment.