Biotech Design

03/08/2022

Climate Change Could Make Nuclear Power Plants Useless

Nuclear power is incredible when you think about it. We can harness the power of atomic degradation and utilise Einstein’s theory of special relativity (E=MC²) to create powerful on-demand low carbon energy. Such technology has the potential to halt our rampant fossil fuel consumption and negate ...

23/06/2022

Award-Winning Photo Captures The Grisly Spectacle of Starfish Swarming to Feed

https://www.biotechdesign.io/post/award-winning-photo-captures-the-grisly-spectacle-of-starfish-swarming-to-feed

16/06/2022

Spatial Analysis of T-cell Subsets in Lungs of COVID-19 Patients

https://www.biotechdesign.io/post/spatial-analysis-of-t-cell-subsets-in-lungs-of-covid-19-patients

15/06/2022

Tasmanian devils return to mainland Australia for first time in 3,000 years

https://www.biotechdesign.io/post/tasmanian-devils-return-to-mainland-australia-for-first-time-in-3-000-years

14/06/2022

The Beauty of Physics
https://www.biotechdesign.io/post/the-beauty-of-physics

13/06/2022

New microchip based on biomolecules is no alien technology

https://www.biotechdesign.io/post/new-microchip-based-on-biomolecules-is-no-alien-technology

03/06/2022

Is it time to cancel menopause?

Sometime when a woman is in her 40s or 50s, the supply of eggs she was born with gradually degrades and runs out. Hormones like estrogen, produced within her egg follicles as they ready for release each month, dwindle. And that shift ushers in an onslaught of often-brutal changes: the end of her fer...

02/06/2022

Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier at last

If you want to map the tiniest parts of a protein, you only have a few options: You can coax millions of individual protein molecules to align into crystals and analyze them using x-ray crystallography. Or you can flash-freeze copies of the protein and bombard them with electrons, a lower resolution...

01/06/2022

After my banking career wore me down, I found my way back to research—and myself

After 15 years working in banking, my body had given up. I was bedridden with pneumonia, and for the first time in years I had a reason to stop—and to reflect. I hadn’t set out to be a banker. As an undergraduate student studying politics and economics, I loved academic research, and I was told ...

27/05/2022

This Algae Powered a Computer for a Year With Just Water and Sunlight

https://www.biotechdesign.io/post/this-algae-powered-a-computer-for-a-year-with-just-water-and-sunlight

18/05/2022

A beginner's guide to time travel

Everyone can travel in time. You do it whether you want to or not, at a steady rate of one second per second. You may think there's no similarity to traveling in one of the three spatial dimensions at, say, one foot per second. But according to Einstein's theory of relativity, we live in a four-dime...

26/04/2022

Largest Study of Cancer WGS Data Uncovers Dozens of New Mutational Signatures

In what is claimed to be the biggest study of its kind, scientists headed by a team at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) and the University of Cambridge, have found a “treasure trove” of clues about the causes of cancer. The team, led by Serena Nik-Zainal, MD, PhD, at CUH and the University o...