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Of 60 applications from across 17 countries, there were eight finalists who participated in the 'Startup Slam' — the Dragons' Den of Biopharma. Representatives of biotech companies presented to a jury of leading investors, pharma deal-makers and biotech business key opinion leaders at the BIO-Europe conference in Copenhagen, November 2018.

Researchers spend their lives in pursuit of a scientific breakthrough. So, when that "eureka" moment finally arrives, of course it is tempting to give that groundbreaking discovery an absurd and memorable name. This list highlights four haunting Halloween-inspired scientific terms.

So, you don’t get the results you were expecting, but why not? Could it be the underlying science – or could it be your choice of assay? Here we highlight 6 technology trends – with the potential to improve productivity and cost-effectiveness in drug discovery – if they are implemented correctly!

Our environment is filled with a multitude of microbes, some harmful others not. However, some organisms have taken coexisting a step further and developed relationships, or symbioses, with microbial partners. Here we consider some of the successful symbiotic relationships found in nature.

This list highlights five of the remarkable contributions that HeLa cells have made to science and medicine.

Mass spectrometry is an important tool for a multitude of research disciplines, from identifying toxins in food and beverages, diagnosing bacterial infections to imaging samples at the biomolecular level. In this list we will explore some of the exciting trends within the field of mass spectrometry and the applications that are exploiting these advances to move the technique forward.

In this list we will highlight some of the less well known but nonetheless ground breaking and important milestones in microbiology from the past seven decades.

If Valentines wasn’t for you, Twitter had your back with #AcademicValentines.

Here we take a look at 5 novel approaches to repair diseased and damaged hearts.

We asked you to tell us how you would describe your job to a 5-year-old, here is a selection of our favourites.