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Unravelling the process that makes viruses infectious
Researchers have for the first time identified the way viruses like the poliovirus and the common cold virus ‘package up’ their genetic code, allowing them to infect cells.
Leeds graduate wins Pharmacology Prize
BSc Pharmacology graduate, Ellen Packer, has won the British Pharmacological Society’s 'Undergraduate Pharmacology Prize’.
A robotic revolution for urban nature
Drones, robots and autonomous systems can transform the natural world in and around cities for people and wildlife.
How a protein ‘hunkers down’ to conserve energy
A visualisation made from nearly 100,000 electron microscope images has revealed the ingenious way a protein involved in muscle activity shuts itself down to conserve energy.
The protein helping to explain foot-and-mouth's infectiousness
Scientists have conducted a ‘molecular dissection’ of a part of the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease, to try and understand why the pathogen is so infectious.