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Love: an AI's inquiry into the essence of human connection

We recently encouraged writers (of all kinds) in our recent Insider’s Insight to experiment with large language artificial intelligence...

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Tis the season to be sciencey... fa-la-la-la-laa…

The festive season is upon us again.

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Paraskevidekatriaphobia or triskaidekaphobia

Paraskevidekatriaphobia is a phobia of Friday the 13th. Yes, they actually gave it a name.

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Clinical Trials Day 2023 – Banging!

Whether it’s a festival, concert or celebratory party, music unites people and pervades

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Clinical Trials Day 2023 – Relax!

Music has a remarkable ability to bring people together and permeate

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Feeling the fourth on Star Wars Day

Yes, it’s Star Wars Day again! The Star Wars films base their wow-factor on their adoption of science

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Data, data everywhere… far too much to think

Every year, a huge amount of scientific data is released. It's out there, but how do you find it?

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April Fools

By their very nature, experts don't find humour funny. We take things way too literally.

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Metathesiophobia: from preclinical to clinical development

Having worked in early-stage clinical pharmacology for over 30 years

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Top 10 horrifying Halloween healthcares

I've been studying medicine for 40 years, and it's beginning to look like something out of science fiction

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Graduation Day

Son, I wanted to record this landmark day in your progress through life.

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Father's Day

I am continually reminded that I must work toward better relationships with my sons than the one I had with my dad.

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical trial conduct

Early in 2020, COVID-19 was spreading rapidly across the globe.

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Love pharmacology

We have long been confounded by that indescribable phenomenon known as love.

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Insights from the human COVID-19 challenge study

The UK's world-class human challenge study gives us new information about SARS-CoV-2 cases that were mild in 36 healthy young volunteers who...

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Fireworks

I love this time of year because I love fireworks. Did a love of fireworks spark a lifelong interest in science? When I was about 11, a...

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Understanding your fears

In the past, Halloween has meant the end of the crop and the start of the dark, cold winter.

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How frights create a happy Halloween

Frights create a happy Halloween by providing the thrill of fear in a controlled and safe environment, turning what would normally be...

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Home working charter for medical communications

Work never stops and after the findings of our ground breaking survey in the EMWA

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Nap Attack!

The US Army has a new secret weapon – napping.

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Sports Survey

When the UK went into lockdown on March 23rd because of the COVID-19 outbreak,

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Milestones

As a jobbing scientist you rarely spend your whole career working on the same project.

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Mental health and remote working

At the start of the year many of us faced changes to the way we work as the COVID-19

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Are We Living Through a Bad News Event Horizon?

When a country’s economy becomes so dominated by a single export industry

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5 tips for Star Wars Day

May 4 is often known as ‘Star Wars Day’. It is jokingly said

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A year in review (2019)

Over the years friends, colleagues and industry leaders have shared their many of their insights with me freely

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Halloween!

Halloween is upon us again.

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The future for clinical studies

Attend any research meeting, conference or clinical congress

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Our infinite monkey cage

We all have a responsibility to encourage young people to study science

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Infinite Monkey Cage

We should all do what we can to get young people interested

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Science won’t save medicine

Last night saw a collection of the UK’s great and the good in clinical pharmacology

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Coming of age

We use the term coming of age to describe the transition into adulthood

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Pulling the pin...

Metathesiophobia: from Preclinical to Clinical Development

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The undiscovered country

The scientific literature comprises scholarly publications that report original

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The 12 best science presents…...ever?

The festive season is a time for the giving and receiving of gifts.

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Stay happy

Last week marked 12 months since I was involved in a life-changing accident.

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Six hard questions

In response to my post with tips for people who want to start their own business

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Top 6 tips when starting a company

Last week was the 20-year anniversary of my founding Niche Science & Technology Ltd.

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Bigger on the inside

I am shamelessly referencing our Insider’s Insights (IIs) to Dr Who’s TARDIS – our latest edition

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Top 5 reasons why bigger isn’t (always) better

The largest pharmaceutical companies not surprisingly rely on the largest contract research organizations

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Star Wars Day

On this day 2 years ago I had a pretty bad accident getting knocked off my motorbike

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Business learnings: 20 years – 20 tips

The last 20 years at Niche have been amazingly exciting – offering

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Three business starter survival traits

Yesterday was 20 years since the Memorandum

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From a father to his son...

on the occasion of your becoming an adult.

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Conference organising 101

They say that as one door closes another one opens.

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A thoughts trip through the brain

It is possible to use electrodes to record brain

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Humbled - try it!

My end-of-year task for yesterday was a visit the local police station

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The 10 best science presents… ...ever?

Metathesiophobia: from Preclinical to Clinical Development

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Top 5 leadership lessons from death

This is me, close to death – again.

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That’s all folks!

In 1786, estimates placed our average life expectancy at just 24 years.

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Targeting death

Many of the increasing number of elderly in our population

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Super-ageing takes guts

We are looking over the precipice that is a revolution

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Immortality – no thanks!

We are looking over the precipice that is a revolution in lifespan modification.

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Can we stop ageing?

According to many observers we are standing on the precipice

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Are you old?

Ask anyone and they will tell you that they don’t think they are as old as they are.

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Tantalising telomeres

Many scientists believe that we have reached the end of the life-expectancy revolution

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Age 40 years in 5 minutes...

With age comes wisdom, however the physical side of ageing

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12 Days of Nichemas

Since 2013, our Insider's Insights have been a way for Niche

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Coming soon - 12 Days of Nichemas

Did we mention that we love to share? We post news about science

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Calling postdocs

It can feel like a career in science is about sacrifice.

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Mentoring – what’s the buzz?

Want a conversation to warm your heart and lift your spirits

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Love or passion?

It the time of school retrospectives once again

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Living longer in good health

Unfortunately, health does not generally improve with age.

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Cast your bread upon the waters

Even though I'm not particularly religious

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Great to be alive - Thank you

At a time when the news seems to enjoy focusing on bad things

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Deceiving your brain: Why April Fools Day pranks work

There is something about primeval about the part of human

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Best presents go beyond the 'big reveal'

Buying Christmas presents for people can be difficult

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Season’s greetings for 2015 and best wishes for the year to come

With the year coming to a close, the Niche team

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Season’s greetings for 2014 and best wishes for the year to come

With the year coming to a close, the Niche team are eager to thank all our colleagues

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Be the cool kid at congress....

Posters are an excellent opportunity to showcase your work

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Unknown Knowns

We have some strange terms in the pharma industry

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Thanks for all your involvement in 2013 and our hopes for 2014

With the year coming to a close, the Niche team are eager to thank all our colleagues

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The Real Thing

sA lot of people say that people don't just buy things, they buy connection

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Season’s greetings, thanks for all your involvement in 2012 and things to come

With the year coming to a close, the Niche team are eager to thank all our colleagues

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Talking Sense About Science

I believed that the central purpose of journalism is to provide the general population

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Under‑Reporting of Clinical Studies

We have some strange terms in the pharma industry

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