All Biological Sciences
First rapid breath test for Coronavirus trialled
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Canterbury-based technology firm ANCON Medical (‘Ancon’) announces the trial of its Nanotechnology …
New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’
Added: 4 Sep 2020
A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19…
Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar
Added: 1 Sep 2020
An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoe…
How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk
Added: 1 Sep 2020
2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China…
Big data for understanding small molecules; a case study
Added: 25 Aug 2020
As big data continues to transform the industry must we remain so reluctant to share data? In her a…
Collaborate to accumulate
Added: 25 Aug 2020
Pharmaceutical research and development has historically been shrouded in mystery; a secretive acti…
Coronavirus 'trap and zap' technology
Added: 24 Aug 2020
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technolog…
Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank
Added: 18 Aug 2020
Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply net…
Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014,…
Improved cybernetics hardware - human interfacing
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Although true 'cyborgs' -- part human, part robotic beings -- are science fiction, researchers are …
Bringing innate immunity centre stage in COVID-19 combat
Added: 17 Aug 2020
A recent Canadian paper [1] has acknowledged that the innate immune system could have a direct effe…
Medical cannabis growth could offer boom for lab industry
Added: 12 Aug 2020
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients pres…
AI stratification significantly improves treatment outcomes for COVID-19 patients
Added: 11 Aug 2020
AN EIT Health project demonstrates early positive results on improving treatment outcomes of patien…
Capturing clinical movement
Added: 7 Aug 2020
From gait analysis to neuroscience, Dr Kim Duffy illustrates how motion capture technology is being…
COVID-19 testing will be standard for clinical trials
Added: 7 Aug 2020
Clinical trial specialist, Bärbel Wilke expects corona testing for both virus and antibody detectio…
How COVID-19 kills: a tale of two conditions
Added: 7 Aug 2020
Steve Walton, explains why he believes the majority of patients that die after being infected with …
A truffle's tale... 40 years in the making
Added: 7 Aug 2020
As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology at Oregon State University, Dan Luoma att…
Advantage flat angel shark
Added: 7 Aug 2020
The general picture of a shark is that of a fast and large ocean predator. Some species, however, q…
How flying snakes glide
Added: 6 Aug 2020
Flying snakes glide through the air, flattening their bodies to provide lift. But as they glide the…
Laboratory News podcast - life on the back of a turtle with Dr Jeroen Ingels
Added: 5 Aug 2020
"I didn't realise that it is basically impossible to stop a turtle physically... it just rolls you …
