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Food or sex? Fruit flies give insight into decision-making

August 17, 2021
Individuals are likely to prioritise food over sex after being deprived of both, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham, who studied this behavioural conflict in fruit flies. A...

Driving precision medicine into frontline healthcare

August 16, 2021
Improved patient safety demands greater specificity to ensure therapeutic efficiency. Here, Tom Renn looks at some of the pioneering companies driving the precision medicine technologies that will support this level...

Study debunks myth that carnivores roam wild in absence of humans

August 13, 2021
As people sheltered in place at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, sightings of wildlife in urban areas helped spawn a meme, “Nature is healing,” that reflected an intuitive belief:...

COVID-19 may impact fight-or-flight response in young adults

August 9, 2021
New collaborative research using microneurography suggests COVID-19 may alter the fight-or-flight response in young adults, potentially distrupting many bodily processes and providing insight into 'long-COVID' symptoms. Pain response, lung function,...

Get ready for Lab Awards 2021

August 9, 2021
Brand new in 2021, the Lab Awards will be taking place at the ICC in Birmingham on the evening of November 3, 2021 — the first night of Lab Innovations....

Glycoproteomics: a new era in biomarkers

August 6, 2021
Klaus Lindpaintner takes us on a journey of discovery, automation and scale-up that has applied AI to mass spectrometry data analysis to deliver a portfolio of glycoproteomic classifiers in more...

All eyes on Lab Innovations 2021

August 5, 2021
At Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry, professionals, scientists, researchers and more will come together and do business for the first time in 2021. On...

Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson’s disease

August 2, 2021
Researchers have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berries and other fruits, prevents and reverses brain damage linked to Parkinson's disease in mouse studies....

Are all mammals just copy cats? Felines to play a key role in human genetics

July 30, 2021
The feline genome is ordered similarly to humans according to one veterinary medicine expert. So, cats have the potential to be a valuable model organism for geneticists to help understand...

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