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Diabetes-in-a-dish model uncovers new insights
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Using cells taken from patients with type 2 diabetes and new techniques to convert them into specia…

Ensuring 'fair and equitable' distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
Added: 4 Sep 2020
When effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, their supply will inevitably be scarce. The World H…

Submit your COVID-19 data to the global vaccine effort
Added: 4 Sep 2020
More than 73,000 users collaborate on a new online platform set up by the European Open Science Clo…

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…

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…

Can efficiency and sustainability coexist?
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Allison Paradise, CEO of My Green lab, a non-profit organization and Marc Boreham vice president an…

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…

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…

Hydrogel paves way for biomedical breakthrough
Added: 4 Aug 2020
A University of Sydney team of biomedical engineers has developed a plasma technology to robustly a…

AI transformation in a post-pandemic world
Added: 3 Aug 2020
Ross Upton considers how COVID-19 is driving the use of AI to protect and transform public health n…

Advanced Engineering and Lab Innovations: visitors are in safe hands
Added: 31 Jul 2020
The UK Government has recently endorsed the reopening of conferences and exhibitions, releasing a s…

Improving animal research: New ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines released
Added: 15 Jul 2020
A previous version of the ARRIVE guidelines for the rigorous reporting of animal studies was publis…

New molecular tool precisely edits mitochondrial DNA
Added: 14 Jul 2020
The genome in mitochondria -- the cell's energy-producing organelles -- is involved in disease and …

New candidate for raw material synthesis through gene transfer
Added: 13 Jul 2020
Cyanobacteria hardly need any nutrients and use the energy of sunlight. Bathers are familiar with t…

Honey, I shrunk the cell culture
Added: 24 Jun 2020
From ‘Fantastic Voyage’ to ‘Despicable Me’, shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple on scree…

Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing
Added: 18 May 2020
In light of the UK government’s request for employers to enable staff to safely return to work wher…

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…

Activation of the SARS coronavirus 2 revealed
Added: 6 May 2020
The Infection Biology Unit of the German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Resea…
Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19
Added: 28 Apr 2020
Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx1…

Defending our last line
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Swift action is vital in the battle against AMR. But as our last lines of defense begin to fall to …