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First volunteer receives new Imperial COVID-19 vaccine
Added: 26 Jun 2020
The first healthy volunteer has received a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers led by …
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…
First adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine receives EU approval
Added: 15 Jun 2020
The European Commission has now given regulatory approval for the first adjuvanted quadrivalent inf…
Webinar: Accepting animal-free bacterial endotoxin testing
Added: 15 Jun 2020
European, US, Japanese and Chinese pharmacopeia will include a synthetic substitute for horseshoe c…
Global alliance for collaborative digital health
Added: 10 Jun 2020
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation …
Dose controlled drug delivery via 3D printed electromagnetic capsule
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Doctors could soon be administering an entire course of treatment for life-threatening conditions w…
GSK partners CRISPR discoverer to develop rapid COVID-19 test
Added: 5 Jun 2020
Gene editor turns gene detective: Dermot Martin investigates a successful COVID-19 test development…
New MIT protein production protocol will speed up drug delivery
Added: 1 Jun 2020
MIT chemists have developed a protocol to rapidly produce protein chains up to 164 amino acids long…
DIY reagents for COVID-19 testing
Added: 20 May 2020
Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create s…
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…
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…
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…
Controlled spherical crystallography for targeted drug delivery
Added: 4 May 2020
Results from a research collaboration between researchers at Drexel’s College of Engineering and th…
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…
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…
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 …
Wellcome Trust on the hunt for best public engagement
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The Wellcome Trust has launched an initiative to find the best examples of public engagement projec…
Law and disorder
Added: 23 Sep 2019
We have been working on Alzheimer’s for a long time… so where are all the therapeutic drugs? Here D…
