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Medical cannabis growth could offer boom for lab industry

August 12, 2020
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients prescribed cannabis-based medicines — and is the removal of yet another barrier in a market expected...

COVID-19 testing will be standard for clinical trials

August 7, 2020
Clinical trial specialist, Bärbel Wilke expects corona testing for both virus and antibody detection to become standard for the recruitment and continued participation of patients in clinical trials. Catherine Featherston...

How COVID-19 kills: a tale of two conditions

August 7, 2020
Steve Walton, explains why he believes the majority of patients that die after being infected with SARS CoV-2 virus infection do not die from respiratory failure, but because of a...

Game review: Evolution

August 1, 2020
Details Age 12+2 - 660 minutesNorth Star Games Traffic Lights Educational use – 2/6Scientific accuracy – 3/6Enjoyment – 5/6

Encapsulating the COVID-19 vaccine race: the investor

July 27, 2020
Having worked with Stabilitech in various capacities over the past decade, Colin Maltby, Director of First Sentinel was uniquely positioned to understand the depth and breadth of the COVID-19 vaccine...

Encapsulating the COVID-19 vaccine race: the developer

July 27, 2020
Since January, weekends have been a thing of the past for Chairman Wayne Channon and his colleagues. Still, when you have the world's first thermally stable, orally administered COVID-19 vaccine...

Improving animal research: New ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines released

July 15, 2020
A previous version of the ARRIVE guidelines for the rigorous reporting of animal studies was published in 2010 by the UK-based science organisation, the NC3Rs. Now, ten years later, new...

Public perception of biomedical science damaged by Covid-19

July 9, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic may have damaged the public’s perception of the ‘unsung heroes’ of the medical community – the biomedical scientists.

Scientists and policy experts raise COVID-19 and climate crises analogues

July 8, 2020
Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of COVID-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went largely ignored until rising infection rates forced policymakers to take action. Likewise, climate and environmental scientists...

Keeping governments accountable: The COVID-10 assessment scorecard

June 16, 2020
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...

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