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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...

The physics of restoration

April 30, 2020
Art plays a significant part in modern society, and the art of restoration is crucial to safeguarding our cultural heritage. Philipp Gutfreund, Research Scientist, Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) explains how new...

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...

Going (anti)viral

April 27, 2020
Dermot Martin catches us up with the rapid reaction of the biopharma community to meet the Covid-19 antiviral quest

Good science communication is vital

April 27, 2020
There is no more important time to get science communication right than during a pandemic. But, says Melanie Challenger, that is harder than it seems…

New collaboration to drive understanding of COVID-19

April 26, 2020
A new collaboration between Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins will work to identify target receptors for COVID-19 and advance understanding of the cellular mechanisms of infection by COVID-19.

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