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DIY reagents for COVID-19 testing

May 19, 2020
Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create more crucial reagents for use in COVID-19 tests that could also provide enhancements to...

Why all newborns should receive BCG vaccine

May 6, 2020
An international research team has identified the mechanism behind one of science's most enduring mysteries: what makes the 100-year-old tuberculosis (TB) vaccine so effective at preventing newborn deaths from diseases...

Cyber warning issued for key healthcare organisations

May 5, 2020
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a cyber security warning to healthcare organisations involved in the COVID-19 response. Following publication of the lasted joint advisory, the NCSC and...

Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 has not mutated

May 5, 2020
Analysis work from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research provides evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has not mutated into different types.

Controlled spherical crystallography for targeted drug delivery

May 3, 2020
Results from a research collaboration between researchers at Drexel’s College of Engineering and the Chemistry Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville demonstrate how to control the formation of structures...

Real-time observation of enzymatic processes on DNA

May 3, 2020
Scientists at the University of Konstanz have used infrared spectroscopy to visualise the biochemical processes that take place at DNA strand breaks involving PARP1. These observations could provide important insight...

Largest Synthetic Polysaccharide Assembled

April 29, 2020
Chemists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) have set a milestone by preparing the two largest carbohydrates ever assembled. Using an Automated Glycan Assembly (AGA)...

Novel potential Covid-19 treatments discovered

April 29, 2020
A UK-based biotechnology firm has announced the discovery of two separate novel treatments for Covid-19 patients before they are put on ventilators. They are now urgently seeking funding of £4m...

Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19

April 27, 2020
Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx19 dataset; the first human cellular morphological dataset of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). The human cellular morphological data and over 1,600...

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