Highlights
Cardiac
Braveheart molecule boosts cardiac resilience
25 August 2015Tweaking the heart’s response to injury could lead to better treatment
Graph
Graphics processors accelerate pattern discovery
25 August 2015Using normal graphics processors, a new program for identifying repeated patterns in complex networks significantly boosts search performance
Institute Of Chemical And Engineering Sciences (ICES)
Fungi tweaked to boost industrial enzymes
25 August 2015Mutants of a common fungus produce endoxylanase enzymes twice as potent as the original strain
Joint Pain
The signature of Chikungunya
28 July 2015A deeper knowledge of the body’s immune response will help combat this mosquito-borne disease
Pharmaceutical
Breaking reactivity barriers
28 July 2015A phosphorus-based ligand facilitates palladium-catalyzed coupling of challenging building blocks
WIP
Shop-floor monitoring goes high tech
28 July 2015An advanced system based on discrete events paves the way for automated industrial monitoring
Biomarker
Snap-and-go band analysis
28 July 2015Mobile software simplifies measurements of gel electrophoresis
Cilia
Reaching the right size
28 July 2015Mutations in a protein involved in neuronal proliferation and survival cause extreme brain malformations and atrophy
Dye
Imaging probe yields double insight
28 July 2015A probe enables tumors to be investigated using complementary imaging techniques
Chemokine
A factor of wide significance
14 July 2015New roles revealed for immune-regulatory protein may have significant clinical implications
Optical Communication
Two crystals are better than one
14 July 2015Engineered structures that can alter the speed of light could benefit optical communication systems
Quantum Dots
Quantum dots light the way
14 July 2015A drug-encapsulating nanoparticle teams up with bright bio-labels to measure how anticancer chemotherapy formulations enter cells
Institute Of Medical Biology (IMB)
Directing cell fates
14 July 2015A master gene determines whether cells become pancreatic or liver cells
