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Current Trends in Bispecifics, Dual-action and Combination Therapies
ArticleIt’s becoming increasingly apparent that treatments for complex diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and depression are unlikely to target a single molecule in the pathological pathway. Drug developers are turning to new ways to exploit more than one drug target at a time.
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One-Way vs Two-Way ANOVA: Differences, Assumptions and Hypotheses
ArticleA key statistical test in research fields including biology, economics and psychology, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is very useful for analyzing datasets. It allows comparisons to be made between three or more groups of data. Here, we summarize the key differences between these two tests, including the assumptions and hypotheses that must be made about each type of test.
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Cell Culture Quality Control: Blissful Ignorance?
ArticleHow can quality control efforts keep up with the rapid advances in cellular model research? Read on for insights into challenges in recognizing and managing issues in cell culture quality control
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Biosafety and the Agents of Doom
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To combat harmful pathogens it is vitally important that scientists have facilities available that enable them to work on them safely. These facilities should prevent the operator from becoming infected with the agent they are working with and prevent the organism from escaping the laboratory setting and potentially initiating new outbreaks of disease.
Safe Guarding Your Food from Harmful Microorganisms and the Impact of Our Changing Climate
ArticlePrevention and detection of harmful microorganisms within the food industry, be it in your own kitchen, during the production chain or right back at the producer is imperative to keeping consumers healthy. Changes occurring in our climate are also causing shifts in the niches inhabited by microbes, and scientists must keep ahead of the game to prevent emerging issues.
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Clinical Microbial Identification by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry
ArticleMatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) is a powerful analytical mass spectrometry technique that has generated numerous diagnostic and clinical applications, especially for the identification of microorganisms for medical diagnosis. Here we take a look at the role of MALDI-TOF in clinical microbial identification and what its future looks like.
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Shaking Hands is Disgusting – Here’s What Else You Can Do
ArticleLets take a look at the science behind the gesture
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How Are We Developing Vaccines for the Future?
ArticleThis article highlights the types of vaccine, trends in developing future vaccines and discusses new delivery methods and strategies to help advance our understanding of the immune system.
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Novel Collagen Membrane Improves Colon-on-a-Chip Functionality
ArticleA microfluidic model of the colon has been built using natural tissue base matrix, which closely mimics the structure and function of the colon.
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Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment for Cancer Therapeutics
ArticleIt’s more than a century since Paget first proposed the ‘soil and seed’ hypothesis in cancer, providing evidence that the environment surrounding a tumor is as important as the tumor itself. Research in this area has gathered momentum and it’s now the focus of intense research efforts.
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