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Solving process safety and scale up

October 2, 2020
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In industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to fine chemicals, there is a need to take small, laboratory scale chemical reactions to mass manufacture of a product. Joe Willmot looks at how...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Analytical Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Biotech, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Food & Bev, Green Chemistry, In Depth, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical
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Improving the luck of the horseshoe crab

September 21, 2020
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Following some recent media controversy, Allen Burgenson, and Glenn Gauvry update our original July 2015 coverage and give us the real story behind the acceptance by the major Pharmacopeia of...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Cell Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Haematology, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Big data for understanding small molecules; a case study

August 25, 2020
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As big data continues to transform the industry must we remain so reluctant to share data? In her article; 'Collaborate to accumulate', updated and published in Laboratory News July 2020...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Collaborate to accumulate

August 25, 2020
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Pharmaceutical research and development has historically been shrouded in mystery; a secretive activity conducted behind closed doors to protect commercial advantage. So, as big data continues to transform the industry...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Capturing clinical movement

August 7, 2020
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From gait analysis to neuroscience, Dr Kim Duffy illustrates how motion capture technology is being applied in healthcare research...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Developmental Biology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmacology, Physiology
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The great vaccine paradox

August 3, 2020
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by Dermot Martin What happens if the best defence against a virus develops an image problem? As we all await the potential freedoms that could be unlocked by a COVID-19...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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The truth about turtles

July 19, 2020
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A research team from Florida State University (FSU) has discovered a world of microscopic life on the back of loggerhead turtles which might explain the geographic spread of aquatic meiofauna....
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, In Depth, Marine Biology, Oceanography, Parasitology
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The human brain built by AI: A transatlantic collaboration

July 2, 2020
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The new German-Canadian lab, HIBALL, aims to create a microscopic 3D map of functional neuroanatomy at the cellular level with the help of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. The lab...
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, In Depth, Neuroscience
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More gain, less pain with liquid biopsies

June 26, 2020
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Following on from a previous article; Liquid Gold, published on 21 January 2019, Dermot Martin revisits the topic of liquid biopsies in the post pandemic era in the light of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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GSK partners CRISPR discoverer to develop rapid COVID-19 test

June 4, 2020
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Gene editor turns gene detective: Dermot Martin investigates a successful COVID-19 test development collaboration... A California-based company created to develop CRISPR gene editing technology, is collaborating with the UK's GlaxoSmithKline...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Physicist creates fifth state of matter from their living room

May 21, 2020
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Dr Amruta Gadge from the Quantum Systems and Devices Laboratory successfully created a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) - considered to be the fifth state of matter - using quantum technology based...
Physics & Engineering
Computer Science, In Depth, Physics, Quantum Physics
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Re-purposing familiar drugs to defend against COVID 19

May 14, 2020
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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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