Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Imperial College Podcast: Giant Cells
Giant cells formed by the fusion of white blood cells may assist in the treatment of abnormal bone growth, according to a recent study. I...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 20, 2015
- 1 min
Nature to let potential authors try a double-blind date
After a trial period, high-profile journal Nature and almost all its sister publications have chosen to offer authors the option submit...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 18, 2015
- 1 min
Truly Brief Communications
Scientific journals are known to publish long and often difficult-to-understand research papers. But a new journal, The Journal of Brief...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 6, 2015
- 1 min
Oath market
Scientific publishing is going through a revolution. The peer review process has been shown to be flawed in many recent cases. Faculty of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 2, 2015
- 1 min
New app helps sickle cell anaemia patients keep medical records
Worldwide, there has been a push to digitalise medical records to make patients active participants in their treatments. A new app, SikL,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 30, 2015
- 1 min
Colorful corals protect the algae inside
Ecologists have long wondered why coral reefs lying next to each other can have drastically different colours. Now, researchers report...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 22, 2015
- 1 min
University of Oxford named United Kingdom's global health front-runner
According to a new ranking system that was launched in the UK Houses of Parliament on 21st January 2015, only a handful of UK...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 21, 2015
- 1 min
Imperial Collge Podcast: Digitalising medical records
My interview with Kit Huckvale, a PhD student at Imperial's Global eHealth department, appeared on this month's Imperial podcast. Kit and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 16, 2015
- 1 min
Syllabus: A jail to creativity
Tutors are often told in sessions to "stick to the syllabus", but is this a hindrance to creativity? Does it limit the ability of kids to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 16, 2015
- 1 min
Temporary tattoo measures blood glucose levels
Diabetes patients often have to inject themselves with needles several times a day to check their blood glucose levels. But, a new...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 15, 2015
- 1 min
Nature publisher to merge with the world’s second biggest science publisher
The publisher of the high profile journal Nature, Macmillan Science and Education, has been announced to merge with the world's second...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 12, 2015
- 1 min
New open-access journal plans to pay peer reviewers
A new open access journal, Collabra, being launched in March 2015 by the University of California Press, aims to pay peer reviewers and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 30, 2014
- 1 min
India’s major science funders join open-access push
Two major funders of scientific research, the departments of Biotechnology and Science & Technology, of India's Ministry of Science and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 18, 2014
- 1 min
The art of storytelling in a tutoring session
Poet Philip Larkin once said, "A story consists of a beginning, a muddle, and an end.” But what exactly did he mean by this? What is the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 18, 2014
- 1 min
BBC Science in Action: Making bricks out of recycled plastic
The monsoon season in South East Asian countries affects thousands of village homes that are made from clay or straw every year. But,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 16, 2014
- 1 min
Ammonia gas detectors could be used to detect sites of open defecation
One in six people don't have access to toilets in developing countries. There is a culture of people practicing open defecation in many...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 15, 2014
- 1 min
Bacteria on pubic hair could be used to identify rapists
When it comes to identifying a rapist, one of the main pieces of evidence police analyze are pubic hairs found at the crime scene. But...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 10, 2014
- 1 min
The rise of patient peer review
Science has often been criticised for seeming 'alien' from the outside. There have been many initiatives to bring science closer to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 3, 2014
- 1 min
Imperial College Podcast: Rogue microbes contaminate microbiome studies
My story about how rogue bacteria and their DNA is contaminating microbiome studies that I reported on for Imperial College's news site...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 21, 2014
- 1 min
Plastic bricks could protect Indian homes from monsoon
Bricks made from soft plastic waste that can each withstand six tonnes of pressure and relentless rain could replace the clay and straw...
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