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New antiviral technology supports reusable COVID-19 facemasks

June 25, 2020
News
Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and ITA RWTH Aachen, two of the most recognised academic institutions in virology and textiles, have confirmed the efficacy of a new self-disinfecting technology to...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Covid-19, Environment, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical/Health, Organic Chemistry
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Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025

June 25, 2020
News
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human rights and biomedical technologies. Governance of technologies, equity in health care and physical and...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Oncology, Paleobiology, Parasitology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physiology, Policy, Virology
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Honey, I shrunk the cell culture

June 24, 2020
News
From ‘Fantastic Voyage’ to ‘Despicable Me’, shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple on screen. Now chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a real shrink ray...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Cytology, Immunology, Life Sciences, Microbiology, Pharmaceutical
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Synthetic materials mimic living creatures

June 24, 2020
News
Northwestern University researchers have developed a family of soft materials that imitates living creatures.When hit with light, the film-thin materials come alive -- bending, rotating and even crawling on surfaces....
Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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Higher rates of severe COVID-19 in ethnic minorities remain unexplained

June 23, 2020
News
Higher rates of severe COVID-19 infections among ethnic minorities are not explained by socioeconomic or behavioural factors, cardiovascular disease risk, or by vitamin D status, according to new research led...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Laboratory News Podcast episode #1

June 17, 2020
Narwhal song with Evgeny Podolskiy
Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Podcasts
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Keeping governments accountable: The COVID-10 assessment scorecard

June 16, 2020
Insight
A new commentary published in Nature Medicine calls for governments to recognise the urgent need to improve their outbreak preparation and response. The authors propose six broad actions that governments...
Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, Policy
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First adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine receives EU approval

June 15, 2020
News
The European Commission has now given regulatory approval for the first adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine to become available across Europe. This new vaccine builds on the well-established technology used in...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Webinar: Accepting animal-free bacterial endotoxin testing

June 15, 2020
News
European, US, Japanese and Chinese pharmacopeia will include a synthetic substitute for horseshoe crab blood in their next revisions, despite some initial concerns from US Pharmacopia experts in May. Lonza...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Environment, Haematology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces

June 11, 2020
News
One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the disease remains alive after someone infected with it coughs or sneezes. Once the droplets...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Medical/Health, Virology
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