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Fast-tracking nanovaccines to fight coronavirus
Added: 10 Sep 2020
Today, there are more than 150 COVID-19 vaccines in the race to mitigate the virus.1-3 Some of thes…

Reimagining the face mask: a design upgrade
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Imagine a reusable face mask that protects wearers and those around them from SARS-CoV-2, is comfor…

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…

First rapid breath test for Coronavirus trialled
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Canterbury-based technology firm ANCON Medical (‘Ancon’) announces the trial of its Nanotechnology …

New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’
Added: 4 Sep 2020
A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19…

Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar
Added: 1 Sep 2020
An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoe…

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…

Coronavirus 'trap and zap' technology
Added: 24 Aug 2020
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technolog…

Converting self-sterilising water filtration technologies for COVID-19 protection
Added: 24 Aug 2020
With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that …

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…

Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014,…

Bringing innate immunity centre stage in COVID-19 combat
Added: 17 Aug 2020
A recent Canadian paper [1] has acknowledged that the innate immune system could have a direct effe…

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…

AI stratification significantly improves treatment outcomes for COVID-19 patients
Added: 11 Aug 2020
AN EIT Health project demonstrates early positive results on improving treatment outcomes of patien…

Capturing clinical movement
Added: 7 Aug 2020
From gait analysis to neuroscience, Dr Kim Duffy illustrates how motion capture technology is being…

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…

How COVID-19 kills: a tale of two conditions
Added: 7 Aug 2020
Steve Walton, explains why he believes the majority of patients that die after being infected with …