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Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs

Added: 18 May 2020

Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic…

Re-purposing familiar drugs to defend against COVID 19

Sarah Lawton | Added: 15 May 2020

By Dermot Martin

Drugs with a successful track record against rare diseases occasionally show posi…

Why men are more vulnerable to Covid-19 than women

Added: 12 May 2020

Evidence from a large study of several thousand patients shows that men have higher concentrations …

AI to map impact of COVID-19 on the heart

Added: 12 May 2020

A joint UK-US research team is applying a pioneering artificial intelligence system to map how the …

What’s your poison?

Sarah Lawton | Added: 11 May 2020

Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-mast…

Why all newborns should receive BCG vaccine

Added: 7 May 2020

An international research team has identified the mechanism behind one of science's most enduring m…

Virtual conference on low-carbon lifestyle changes

Added: 7 May 2020

More than 500 researchers from all around the world will gather virtually tomorrow Wednesday May 6 …

Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 has not mutated

Added: 6 May 2020

Analysis work from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research provides evidence that S…

Cyber warning issued for key healthcare organisations

Added: 6 May 2020

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a cyber security warning to healthcare organis…

A counterintuitive approach to treating Covid-19

Added: 4 May 2020

A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body's immune system during the early sta…

A question of reagents

Sarah Lawton | Added: 1 May 2020

At the time of writing, more than 1.3M people have been infected and more than 72,600 deaths have b…

Novel potential Covid-19 treatments discovered

Added: 30 Apr 2020

A UK-based biotechnology firm has announced the discovery of two separate novel treatments for Covi…

Predicting heart disease with AI

Added: 30 Apr 2020

A revolutionary new medical device that can predict coronary artery disease – the number one cause …

Certified 3D printed face shields for NHS

Added: 30 Apr 2020

Engineers at the University of Nottingham have designed a PPE face shield with CE approval that the…

Good science communication is vital

Added: 28 Apr 2020

There is no more important time to get science communication right than during a pandemic. But, say…

BIA #TestingMethods2020 Update

Added: 28 Apr 2020

COVID-19 Vaccine trials start in the UK, testing scales up and knowledge economy support package va…

New collaboration to drive understanding of COVID-19

Added: 27 Apr 2020

A new collaboration between Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins will work to…

Knowing a lot about very little

Added: 19 Aug 2019

The potential of nanomedicine to tackle many diseases is immense, but we really don’t know much abo…

PM announces new NHS AI lab

Added: 8 Aug 2019

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has allocated £250 million for investment in AI, including a new lab f…

Game Theory: Linkage

Added: 5 Aug 2019

Games have never been more popular and in their column the newest recruits to the Lab News team, Dr…