All Life articles – Page 74
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Research
Spider silk strength is in the loop
Discovery of hidden thread in silk of deadly spider inspires material-toughening strategy
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Research
Salivary salt modifies cheese’s tang
Researchers chew over link between physiology and flavour
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Feature
Shedding light on the dark proteome
Around half of all human proteins are a mystery. What do they look like, asks Phil Ball
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Podcast
Furry Logic by Martin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher – Book club
This month we discuss the physics of turtles, shrimps and, of course, cats
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Business
US biotech leaders protest immigration ban
Donald Trump’s suspended order would endanger America’s biotech industry if re-instated
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Research
Magnetic droplets stamp out protein patterns
Droplets rolling across a lotus leaf spark device assembly idea
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News
€1 million prize awarded for quick test to cut antibiotic use
Diagnostic device could help fight antimicrobial resistance by determining whether or not an infection is caused by bacteria
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Podcast
Porphyrins
Brian Clegg examines the colourful compounds that no red-blooded creature can do without: Porphyrins
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Research
Polymer offers promise of surgery free 'vasectomy'
Contraceptive technique shown to be effective and safe in rhesus macaque monkeys
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Opinion
Supramolecular evolution
Can chemists embrace disequilibria like they have non-covalent interactions?
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Research
Ocean chemistry changes triggered Earth's greatest extinction event
The Great Dying 250 million years ago has its roots in the intrusion of deadly sulfide rich waters into oxygenated shallows with lessons for today
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Opinion
Why pain is part of making food delicious
The reason we love eating irritants like chillis and ginger
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Research
Automated fluorine radiolabelling moves closer to the clinic
New technique could improve tumour diagnosis and treatment
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Research
Synthetic cells pass bacterial Turing test
Chemical communication offers a way to determine how lifelike an artificial cell is
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Research
Wastewater plant upgrade fixes fish feminisation problem
Gender balance has been restored in a Canadian river by cutting levels of endocrine disruptors
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Research
Molecular structure is teixobactin’s pièce de résistance
Study builds scientists’ arsenal against drug-resistant superbugs
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News
Alzheimer’s disease: have drug developers been on the wrong track?
Dementia drug developers urged to look beyond amyloid