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Improving the luck of the horseshoe crab
September 21, 2020
Following some recent media controversy, Allen Burgenson, and Glenn Gauvry update our original July 2015 coverage and give us the real story behind the acceptance by the major Pharmacopeia of...

Plant-based supercapacitor delivers 900 x energy efficiency
September 11, 2020
In a new study, researchers at Texas A&M University have described their novel plant-based energy storage device that could charge even electric cars within a few minutes in the near...

Fast-tracking nanovaccines to fight coronavirus
September 10, 2020
Today, there are more than 150 COVID-19 vaccines in the race to mitigate the virus.1-3 Some of these vaccines have already reached Phase III clinical trials in less than a...
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Virology

Diabetes-in-a-dish model uncovers new insights
September 4, 2020
Using cells taken from patients with type 2 diabetes and new techniques to convert them into specialised precursors of muscle cells, researchers have developed a novel 'disease-in-a-dish' model to study...

Ensuring ‘fair and equitable’ distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
September 4, 2020
When effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, their supply will inevitably be scarce. The World Health Organization (WHO), global leaders, and vaccine producers are already facing the question of how to...

Submit your COVID-19 data to the global vaccine effort
September 4, 2020
More than 73,000 users collaborate on a new online platform set up by the European Open Science Cloud Initiative, where scientists share COVID-19 data and accelerate our understanding of the...
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology

First rapid breath test for Coronavirus trialled
September 4, 2020
Canterbury-based technology firm ANCON Medical (‘Ancon’) announces the trial of its Nanotechnology Biomarker Tagging (NBT) system, to provide a breath test to diagnose Coronavirus in 10 -15 minutes. The system,...

New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’
September 4, 2020
A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19 testing capacity, in an investment creating 400 jobs.

How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk
September 1, 2020
2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China mutated to allow it to infect humans too. Within 3 months...

Big data for understanding small molecules; a case study
August 25, 2020
As big data continues to transform the industry must we remain so reluctant to share data? In her article; 'Collaborate to accumulate', updated and published in Laboratory News July 2020...

