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Instant insight: Recognising antidepressants
10 June 2009
Kristian Strømgaard considers why a small change in an antidepressant can dramatically change its target in the brain
Instant insight: Squashing cancer cells
18 May 2009
Could stretching cells be the way to diagnose cancer? Claudia Brunner takes a biomechanical approach to medicine
Instant insight: What is metallomics?
08 April 2009
Amongst the '-omics' fields, metallomics is a relative newcomer. Ryszard Lobinski and colleagues provide their definition
Instant insight: Food for thought
26 February 2009
How much does our diet have an effect on human memory and learning? Jeremy Spencer considers the case of the flavonoids
Instant insight: Sorting perturbed proteins
05 February 2009
Ruth Nussinov and colleagues put their case for a more organised way of looking at protein allostery
Instant insight: Chemical connections
05 January 2009
Building a protein can be likened to a jigsaw puzzle. Stephen Kent puts the pieces together
Instant insight: A delicate balance
11 December 2008
Hiroko Kodama and Chie Fujisawa weigh up why copper regulation is so crucial in the body
Instant insight: Life at the extremes
11 November 2008
Miniature natural product libraries can be found in the most unexpected places
Instant insight: The path of least resistance
07 November 2008
If targeting a virus directly promotes drug resistance, why not take a different approach?
Instant insight: Bacterial nanoinjectors
26 September 2008
Roberto De Guzman explains how some of the world's most deadly pathogens use needles to inject their prey
Instant insight: Nature's fruitful chemistry
11 September 2008
Bernhard Kräutler and Thomas Müller explain why the changing colour of autumn leaves could be to our advantage
Instant insight: A golden future
14 August 2008
Ralph Sperling explains why gold is so precious to biological scientists
Instant insight: Beryllium: friend or foe?
16 July 2008
Brian Scott and colleagues examine the molecular basis of chronic beryllium disease
Instant insight: Chemical developments
16 June 2008
Ilya Shestopalov and James Chen look at how chemistry can be used to probe the earliest processes of life
Instant insight: Communicating with nature
14 May 2008
Bacteria have invented a potentially global language - quorum sensing. Kim Janda translates.
Instant insight: Crossing the cell membrane
16 April 2008
Shana Kelley reveals how cell-penetrating peptides deliver the goods when it comes to biology and medicine.
Instant insight: Reading the genome atlas
19 March 2008
Examining how the BLASTatlas tool can be used to spot the differences between similar genomes.
Instant insight: A fluorescent future
25 February 2008
B. H. Kim, Y. J. Seo and N. Venkatesan explain why quencher-free molecular beacons mean a brighter outlook for medicine.
Instant insight: Lab on a computer chip
12 February 2008
Computers are reshaping the way we explore the life sciences.
Instant insight: Think outside the cell
20 December 2007
Mark Wilson and Justin Yerbury at the University of Wollongong, Australia, examine proteins' extracellular activities.
Instant insight: Natural remedies
13 December 2007
Jason Micklefield of the University of Manchester, UK, looks at how natural products hit the targets other molecules cannot reach
Instant insight: DNA hitchhikers
15 November 2007
Brian Jones and Julian Marchesi, of University College Cork in Ireland, take a closer look at the genetic swap shops in our midst.
Instant insight: Don't blame the messenger
18 October 2007
Brian Mann and Roberto Motterlini react to carbon monoxide's bad press.
Instant insight: 'Absolute' phosphorylation
21 September 2007
Elemental mass spectrometry is a high flier in the world of quantitative phosphoproteomics.
Instant insight: Forces of attraction
20 August 2007
Outlining the role non-covalent interactions play in the structure, stability and functions of biomolecules.
Instant insight: Revealing the hidden depths
20 July 2007
Emerging spectroscopic techniques that promise to change cancer and bone disease diagnosis.
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Instant insight: Essential metals
21 May 2007
Xiangyang Liang, Dominic Campopiano and Peter Sadler at the University of Edinburgh, UK, examine how and why metals cross membranes.
Instant insight: Organ printing
23 April 2007
Glenn Prestwich of the University of Utah, US, explains how to build living structures with self-assembling cells.
Instant insight: Living computers
15 March 2007
Hao Song, Cheemeng Tan, and Lingchong You, at Duke University in Durham, US, explain how cells can solve problems.
Instant insight: The soft cell
06 February 2007
Ulrich Schwarz, soft matter researcher at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, explains why softness matters for cells.
Instant insight: Probing expression
22 January 2007
Ivan Dmochowski and XinJing Tang, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, US, shed light on gene regulation.
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