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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…

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…

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…
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…

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…

Going round in circles
Added: 9 Apr 2020
Single use plastics are a staple in the lab – but they are also are part of the plastics pollution …

CERN takes on Covid-19
Added: 9 Apr 2020
The World’s biggest experiment, CERN, has established a task force to identify and support contribu…

Antibody from SARS epidemic reacts with Coronavirus
Added: 9 Apr 2020
An antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s has revealed a potent…

We need to talk about live wet-markets
Added: 6 Apr 2020
How do we make sure this doesn’t happen ever again? How do we reduce novel zoonotics in our species…

Coronavirus – is it just “a type of ‘flu”?
Added: 2 Apr 2020
The virology, genomics, epidemiology and medical response – Chief Virology Examiner at the Institut…

WIN: Visions of Science
Added: 2 Apr 2020
Produced by the Art in Research gallery – the first art gallery dedicated to scientific photography…

Consortium to develop COVID-19 vaccine
Added: 2 Apr 2020
University of Oxford researchers working in an unprecedented vaccine development effort to prevent …

Investment to map COVID-19
Added: 24 Mar 2020
The government have announced a £20 million investment to map how COVID-19 spreads and behaves by u…

Seed funding for oncology drug developer
Added: 24 Mar 2020
A biotechnology company focused on the treatment of cancer has announced an additional £1 million s…

Shining a light on diabetes
Added: 17 Mar 2020
The complexity of glycogen storage diseases like diabetes means a reductionist approach just won’t …

Does gene therapy put safety second?
Added: 15 Mar 2020
The delivery of gene therapies relies almost entirely on viral vectors. So, when it comes to the pr…

Space-bound human tissue
Added: 10 Mar 2020
The University of Zurich has sent adult human stem cells to the International Space Station to expl…

Team release coronavirus inhibition results
Added: 10 Mar 2020
A team using computer-aided methods to identify possible new drugs to combat the current coronaviru…

Curbing our animal instinct
Added: 10 Mar 2020
Amy Beale, Scientific Liaison Officer at independent charity FRAME explains the importance of educa…

Human protein atlas sheds light on brain
Added: 4 Mar 2020
An international team of scientists has launched a comprehensive overview of all proteins expressed…