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A combinatorial approach to biochemical space: description and application to the redox distribution of metabolism

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

A fast and mild decellularization protocol for obtaining extracellular matrix.

scientific article

An Apparent Binary Choice in Biochemistry: Mutual Reactivity Implies Life Chooses Thiols or Nitrogen-Sulfur Bonds, but Not Both

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

An astrophysical view of Earth-based metabolic biosignature gases

scientific article published on January 2012

Assessment of Isoprene as a Possible Biosignature Gas in Exoplanets with Anoxic Atmospheres

scientific article published in April 2021

Biotechnology from A to Z

work by William Bains

Bonsai biotech

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

Can I have volunteers to die tomorrow?

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Comment on "Orthographic processing in baboons (Papio papio)".

scientific article published in September 2012

Debunking technophobes

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Evolutionary computational methods to predict oral bioavailability QSPRs

scientific article

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment.

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

Exoplanet Biosignatures: Future Directions.

scientific article

Exposure of the eyes to near-horizon sunshine may be a trigger for multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 10 November 2009

Fraud and scandal in biotech

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Genentech was not the first biotech company

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Genetic exceptionalism

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Getting Beyond the Toy Domain. Meditations on David Deamer's "Assembling Life"

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Getting down to business

scientific article published in Nature

HERG binding specificity and binding site structure: evidence from a fragment-based evolutionary computing SAR study

scientific article published in October 2004

How academics can make (extra) money out of their science

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

How to write up a hypothesis: the good, the bad and the ugly

scientific article published in January 2005

Hypotheses, limits, models and life

scientific article

Low levels of sulphur dioxide contamination of Venusian phosphine spectra

scholarly article

Low potency toxins reveal dense interaction networks in metabolism

scientific article published on 20 February 2016

Many chemistries could be used to build living systems

scientific article

Mechanisms of Evolutionary Innovation Point to Genetic Control Logic as the Key Difference Between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes.

scientific article

Models and standards of proof in cross-disciplinary science: the case of arsenic DNA

scientific article published on 02 May 2013

Muʻjam al-taknūlūjiyā al-ḥayawīyah (al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah, 1996)

Natural Products Containing 'Rare' Organophosphorus Functional Groups

article

Natural Products Containing a Nitrogen-Sulfur Bond.

scientific article

New environmental model for thermodynamic ecology of biological phosphine production

scientific article published on 08 December 2018

Nobel prize lagged my undergraduate lectures by 20 years

scientific article published in Nature

On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Open source and biotech

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Paradoxes of non-trivial gene networks: how cancer-causing mutations can appear to be cancer-protective

scientific article

Peer review versus editorial review and their role in innovative science

scientific article published on October 2012

Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus

scientific article

Phosphine on Venus Cannot Be Explained by Conventional Processes

scientific article published in October 2021

Photosynthesis in hydrogen-dominated atmospheres

scientific article

Prediction of the maximum temperature for life based on the stability of metabolites to decomposition in water

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

Price-augmented placebo effect

scientific article published on 19 October 2008

Prosper and Live Long: Productive Life Span Tracks Increasing Overall Life Span Over Historical Time among Privileged Worker Groups

scientific article

Random number generation and creativity

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Reply to: No evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus from independent analyses

scientific article published on 16 July 2021

Review of Scientific Self-Experimentation: Ethics History, Regulation, Scenarios, and Views Among Ethics Committees and Prominent Scientists

article

Silicon chemistry as a novel source of chemical diversity in drug design.

scientific article

Small company mergers--good for whom?

scientific article published in November 2006

Stratospheric Chemical Lifetime of Aviation Fuel Incomplete Combustion Products

scientific article published in 2022

The Biomedical Mutual Organization: a new approach to developing new medical treatments

scientific article published on 23 October 2007

The Cosmic Zoo: The (Near) Inevitability of the Evolution of Complex, Macroscopic Life

scientific article

The Role of Philanthropy in Biomedical Research: Giving Your Body and Soul

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

The same gene can be tumour suppressing and tumour promoting

scientific article published on 03 January 2008

The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science

scientific article

Transglutaminse 2 and EGGL, the protein cross-link formed by transglutaminse 2, as therapeutic targets for disabilities of old age.

scientific article published on December 2013

Treating Chronic Fatigue states as a disease of the regulation of energy metabolism

scientific article published on 05 August 2008

Trivalent Phosphorus and Phosphines as Components of Biochemistry in Anoxic Environments

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Truly personalised medicine: self-experimentation in medical discovery

scientific article published on 29 October 2007

Vasoprotective VEGF as a candidate for prevention of recurrence of fibrotic diseases such as Dupuytren's contracture

scientific article published in June 2003

Wasting cash--the decline of the British biotech sector

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Wet Wet Wet

essay by William Bains