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Inhouse genetic analysis

January 7, 2021
Here, Dr Philip Hargreaves (business development) and Gabriela Saldanha (product management) discuss the drivers and lessons learned behind Promega's successful development collaboration with Hitachi High-Tech…

Nanoparticle drug-delivery system developed to treat brain disorders

January 6, 2021
A team of bioengineers has proven a novel system of nanoparticles can successfully carry three times more targeted drug across the previously difficult-to-breach healthy blood brain barrier. This shows promise...

COVID vaccine trial data peer review: Moderna-NIAID partnership

January 5, 2021
A published peer review agrees data from the collaboration between Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Phase 3 clinical trial confirm the resulting vaccine is...

Accurate COVID-19 test results in only five minutes

January 5, 2021
University of Birmingham researchers have devised a new Reverse Transcriptase Free EXPAR (RTF-EXPAR) testing method. While offering broader applications, it will first be used to create an accurate COVID-19 test...

Coronavirus vaccine: understanding trial results, roll-out and what happens next

January 4, 2021
Rob Reddick, The Conversation Coronavirus vaccines are being administered. Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was the first to finish the final stage of testing – known as phase 3 – and the...

To improve reproducibility; look first to pipetting

January 4, 2021
With years of experience and expertise with pipettes, Gustavo Chavarria outlines pipetting factors and practices that lead to success and reproducibility in the lab…

Streamlining critical workflows

January 4, 2021
Research technician, Yvette Hoade, explains how electronic pipettes and pipetting robots help speed up her workflow when investigating mutations associated with different blood diseases that can lead to leukaemia.

Vital biodiversity collections face drop in specimen deposits

January 1, 2021
Kansas researchers argue that expanded biodiversity infrastructure will be an essential front line of defense in pandemic preparedness in the wake of COVID-19 as preserved specimens capture the community of...

Kinship is beneficial – even for anti-social squirrels

December 23, 2020
Never rattle at your neighbours, killing them could endanger your health... if you're a red squirrel. Have you ever seen more than one squirrel together anywhere except an artificial feeding...

RNA molecules are masters of their own destiny

December 22, 2020
How does the cell know when to stop transcribing? What is the purpose of noncoding RNAs? Another win for multi-disciplinary research as results from the Whitehead Institute suggest that the...

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