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Can potentially detect subtle early signs of fake #coronaltruism
Added: 27 Jul 2020
Delving into a rising tide of pandemic-driven inbox clutter, Russ Swan calls bogus on many a poorly…

Encapsulating the COVID-19 vaccine race: the investor
Added: 27 Jul 2020
Having worked with Stabilitech in various capacities over the past decade, Colin Maltby, Director o…

Encapsulating the COVID-19 vaccine race: the developer
Added: 27 Jul 2020
Since January, weekends have been a thing of the past for Chairman Wayne Channon and his colleagues…

UK vaccine capability enjoys a >£100M cash boost
Added: 24 Jul 2020
The UK is at the forefront of international efforts to research and develop a COVID-19 vaccine and …

UK-based in-depth study of early COVID-19 detection
Added: 24 Jul 2020
UK digital health and therapeutics company Huma is teaming up with the renowned Fenland Study resea…

Study delivers animal replacement method for vaccine testing
Added: 23 Jul 2020
Dutch, Bilthoven based, Intravacc, a global leader intranslational research and development of vira…

First US-statewide COVID-19 random sample study findings published
Added: 23 Jul 2020
The results of the first statewide random sample study in the United States to measure the spread o…

Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus
Added: 23 Jul 2020
Airborne and potentially deadly, the virus that causes COVID-19 can only be studied safely under hi…

Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025
Added: 25 Jun 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human right…

Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces
Added: 11 Jun 2020
One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the d…

Widespread facemask use could shrink the 'R' number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevent…

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…

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…

Going (anti)viral
Added: 28 Apr 2020
Dermot Martin catches us up with the rapid reaction of the biopharma community to meet the Covid-19…

A very positive destruction
Added: 2 Dec 2019
Totally eradicating disease is a very rare thing indeed and requires, among other things, global co…

Procarta awarded £7.4M for microbial treatment
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Biotechnology company Procarta Biosystems will receive up to £7.4 million to develop a new class of…

Going viral
Added: 28 Aug 2019
Foodborne viruses present a major challenge to the safety of a range of foods including ready–to–ea…

Ebola patients cured with mAb drugs
Added: 13 Aug 2019
Two monoclonal antibody drugs will be used to treat Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Co…

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…

HIV virus eliminated with CRISPR and new antiretroviral therapy
Added: 4 Jul 2019
Replication-competent HIV-1 DNA – the virus responsible for AIDS – has been eliminated from the gen…