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How can we discover new antibiotics?

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How can we discover new antibiotics? First discovered in the 1920s, antibiotics have revolutionised the way we treat infectious disease. ANTIBIOTICS – drugs used to treat infections by killing or preventing the growth of bacteria. Published: May 10, 2022.

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How do enzymes speed up chemical reactions?

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How do enzymes speed up chemical reactions? Enzymes are so extraordinary that we extract them from organisms, like bacteria, and use them for countless processes, from cleaning our clothes and making cheese, to blood clot dissolution and improving antibiotics. Without them, we would not be able to exist.

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

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It is likely you can answer yes to both questions because biomedical science is booming – and for good reason. Our understanding of the world has changed irrevocably since the COVID-19 pandemic, and elements of biomedicine which we would not have considered before are now very familiar to us.

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The engineering behind Evolutor

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We have come a long way since Darwin published his concepts, and engineers and scientists have borrowed the concept of ‘survival of the fittest’ and applied it to engineering biological systems for industrial applications. So, how does this relate to Tuck’s work? By evolving microbes, the team can optimise natural resources.

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How to build a game-changing malaria vaccine

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How to build a game-changing malaria vaccine Published: For millennia, malaria has plagued human civilization, killing billions over the course of history. Rick is a professor of medicine at the USA’s Yale School of Medicine and is busy unpicking malaria’s unique mechanisms to discover how to defeat it.

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