Food and drink researchers have found a new way to produce sparkling wine using magnetised yeast – a process which reduces the time taken to remove waste yeast from weeks to minutes.
29 May, 2014
Newly launched ‘Technology Platform Access’ programme provides the opportunity to work with a pioneering antibody discovery platform that is the result of a multi-million pound investment in UCB’s immunology research centre of excellence
11 May, 2014
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from KU Leuven in Belgium has developed a new technique to examine how proteins interact with each other at the level of a single HIV viral particle. The technique allows scientists to study the life-threatening virus in detail and makes screening potential anti-HIV drugs quicker and more efficient. The technique can also be used to study other diseases.
09 May, 2014
LA JOLLA, CA—May 7, 2014—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA “letters,” or bases, not found in nature. The cells of this unique bacterium can replicate the unnatural DNA bases more or less normally, for as long as the molecular building blocks are supplied.
08 May, 2014