Stealth and sabotage
15.07.15 Abigail Perrin explains how malaria parasites trick our immune system
A breath of fresh air for oxygen-starved tissue
22.06.15 Artificial membrane could transform the way we treat heart disease, says Rameen Shakur
Keeping pace with changing parasite genetics
25.04.15 Malaria parasites adapt at a frightening rate. A global collaboration has compiled a large collection of P. falciparum genomes and is using this resource to keep up.
Helping computers to read symptoms
15.04.15 Big data can help us find the causes of rare diseases. But, says Anika Oellrich, computers must first understand the many ways we describe symptoms
Following cancer’s journey
01.04.15 How do tumours move between organs? Are they competing when they spread or do they work cooperatively? David Wedge looks for answers in a new prostate cancer study
Is the playing field level in prostate cancer?
01.04.15 Between competing prostate tumours there are often areas of normal tissue. David Wedge asks whether these healthy cells are actually creating a field effect that facilitates cancer’s spread
The bacteria that’s as smart as a whip
30.03.15 In the rest of the world, Salmonella Typhi has only one type of flagellin, the whip-like structure that helps it to move. Indonesian strains have at least three different types. Fernanda Schreiber asks why
Answering age-old questions
09.03.15 Why do we age? What’s happening to us at a cellular level? While exploring competing theories, Tamir Chandra and Philip Ewels stumbled on some possible answers
SMRTer sequencing
02.03.15 We’re beginning to understand how bacterial DNA adapts and evolves. John Lees explains the long and short of the technology that’s made it possible
