Today the Allotrope is moving to a new home at Scilogs.com . I have been a blogger on this network for a little over two years and it has b...

Half of all pharmaceuticals work because of a family of proteins that sit on the boundary of cells in the human body. This year’s Nobel p...

Pharmaceutical companies exploit a process called co-crystallisation to optimise the physical properties of drugs. Now scientists deve...

A team at MIT has developed a polymer gel that can mimic human vocal cords. Although vocal cords don't make it to the news very often, ...

Much is said about why fish group together in schools. But there is little direct evidence for why that happens. Now, with the help of a v...