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19 Oct (R)Evolution 2: A New Approach to Treating Diseases

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In my last blog post, I talked about Frances Arnold’s work on the directed evolution of enzymes, which won her half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2018. The other half of the prize went to George Smith and Sir Gregory Winter for the ...

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17 Nov The Fall of the Superbug?

Inspired by my trip to the Superbugs exhibition at London’s Science Museum, last week I wrote about the Rise of the Superbug and how they came to be. Obviously we want to do our best to prevent any more developing, but that still ...

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