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The sweet sense of sustainability – repurposing sugar
Added: 10 Sep 2021
As we all look to our waistlines, understanding more about healthy eating and seeking to make healt…

NHS takes steps to minimise impact of blood tube shortage
Added: 9 Sep 2021
The Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) has delivered a clarification statement regarding the sh…

UK vaccination programme: More to be done!
Added: 9 Sep 2021
Think tanks calls for Government to continue momentum from COVID-19 vaccination programme as winter…

Celebrating 50 years with the mother of 'ELISA'
Added: 27 Aug 2021
In an exclusive interview with Dermot Martin, Eva Engvall discusses the invention and evolution of …

Scientists get second opinion from AI on tell-tale heart
Added: 26 Aug 2021
The single biggest global cause of death is heart disease. Changes in the electrical signals associ…

UK launches national antibody surveillance programme
Added: 25 Aug 2021
For the first time, UK Health Security Agency to launch UK-wide antibody surveillance programme for…

The one hundredth column from a heart-filled nerd
Added: 20 Aug 2021
Never doing anything by halves and much to the relief of friends, family, and this editor, Russ Swa…

Driving precision medicine into frontline healthcare
Added: 16 Aug 2021
Improved patient safety demands greater specificity to ensure therapeutic efficiency. Here, Tom Ren…

COVID-19 may impact fight-or-flight response in young adults
Added: 9 Aug 2021
New collaborative research using microneurography suggests COVID-19 may alter the fight-or-flight r…

Glycoproteomics: a new era in biomarkers
Added: 6 Aug 2021
Klaus Lindpaintner takes us on a journey of discovery, automation and scale-up that has applied AI …

Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson's disease
Added: 2 Aug 2021
Researchers have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berrie…

Are all mammals just copy cats? Felines to play a key role in human genetics
Added: 30 Jul 2021
The feline genome is ordered similarly to humans according to one veterinary medicine expert. So, c…

Gene variant discovery could help treat Alzheimer's and other degenerative brain disorders
Added: 29 Jul 2021
New research suggests early changes in brain metabolism may explain the neurodegeneration suffered …

Shipping biologicals - the journey of human tissue samples
Added: 29 Jul 2021
Medical research relies on routine and specialist biological samples which must be handled with gre…

Making polymers perform – a research and technical transfer story
Added: 23 Jul 2021
How do you set up and grow a new science-based technology company? Here, we uncover how Dr Don Well…

One drug to treat them all: towards a 'master' coronavirus treatment
Added: 22 Jul 2021
Researchers seek and find that precious drug-binding pocket that is so essential to the coronavirus…

New report recommends antibody testing within the Covid-19 vaccination programme
Added: 8 Jul 2021
Antibody testing can be used to identify the minority of people who have a sub-optimal response to …

Breakthrough for tracking RNA with fluorescence
Added: 7 Jul 2021
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in developing a method to …

Tissue autografting turns pulp fiction into pulp reality
Added: 6 Jul 2021
One of the most challenging medical conditions is serious loss of tissue. Unlike certain animals, h…

A CRISPECTOR calls with fresh insight to gene editing errors
Added: 5 Jul 2021
An Israeli research team claims new software can detect unintended consequences of gene editing. He…