All articles by Lindsay Dodgson

Watching the clock: should day and night influence our drug regimens?

It is clear that the time of day has a dramatic effect on human physiology. At the simplest level, we…
Could copper unlock a new wave of metabolic treatments?

For nearly a century, scientists have acknowledged the importance of copper to human health. As early as 1928, rat studies…
Scaling up the pharma sector’s smart packaging revolution

Imagine if a packet of antibiotics could not only tell the patient whether it had been opened and which pill…
Stem cell printing: a pathway to personalised medicine?

In October 2015, researchers at Heriot-Watt University hit the headlines with a remarkable new 3D printing process. Their technique, the…
Drug side effects: Big Pharma’s ‘inconvenient truth’

Some 100,000 people in the US die from prescription drug side effects every year and 7% of all hospital admissions…