The redbrick offices, just north of Hamburg’s River Elbe and a few floors below Carlsberg’s German headquarters, are an unexpectedly low-key setting for a food…
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Ocean fungi from twilight zone could be source of next penicillin-like drug
Large numbers of fungi have been found living in the twilight zone of the ocean, and could unlock the door to new drugs that may…
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In 2001, a group of Japanese scientists made a startling discovery at a rubbish dump. In trenches packed with dirt and waste, they found a…
View More ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the worldSmall wonder: big DNA advances loom at university startup Oxford Nanopore
Not far from Didcot, once a halfway stop between London and Bristol on the Great Western Railway celebrated for Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s engineering, innovation has…
View More Small wonder: big DNA advances loom at university startup Oxford NanoporeLife will find a way: could scientists make Jurassic Park a reality?
What Alida Bailleul saw through the microscope made no sense. She was examining thin sections of fossilised skull from a young hadrosaur, a duck-billed, plant-eating…
View More Life will find a way: could scientists make Jurassic Park a reality?The hidden long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’
In 2004, Mario Cibelli was preparing a 75-year-old patient for a big cardiac operation when the patient’s daughter asked for a quick word. “She explained…
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