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Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs

May 17, 2020
News
Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic environments such as transport hubs to enable improved management to prevent transmission and slow the...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Engineering, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, Medical/Health
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Re-purposing familiar drugs to defend against COVID 19

May 14, 2020
Feature
Drugs with a successful track record against rare diseases occasionally show positive effects over unrelated conditions. So-called re-purposing has had its advocates in the pharmaceutical and biochemical sector for many...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Covid-19 reveals misunderstanding of the lab sector

May 14, 2020
Insight
As Russ Swan settles in to a new normal of self-isolation, he'd like to believe politicians, he really would - but…
Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Covid-19
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Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data

May 12, 2020
News
A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research, one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, has responded to a request from the White House, Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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AI to map impact of COVID-19 on the heart

May 11, 2020
News
A joint UK-US research team is applying a pioneering artificial intelligence system to map how the COVID-19 virus attacks the heart with such deadly impact. The collaboration aims to quantify...
Life Sciences
Biology, Biophysics, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Why men are more vulnerable to Covid-19 than women

May 11, 2020
News
Evidence from a large study of several thousand patients shows that men have higher concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in their blood than women. Since ACE2 enables the coronavirus...
Life Sciences
Covid-19, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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WIN: A Tale of Seven Scientists

May 11, 2020
News
And a new philosophy of scienceWritten by Eric Scerri
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Physics, Policy
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What’s your poison?

May 10, 2020
Feature
Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-master Steve Trim explains how evolution can give us a Pharmaceutical short-cut.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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Virtual conference on low-carbon lifestyle changes

May 6, 2020
News
More than 500 researchers from all around the world will gather virtually tomorrow Wednesday May 6 at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Policy
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Why all newborns should receive BCG vaccine

May 6, 2020
News
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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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