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Fast-tracking nanovaccines to fight coronavirus

September 10, 2020
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Today, there are more than 150 COVID-19 vaccines in the race to mitigate the virus.1-3 Some of these vaccines have already reached Phase III clinical trials in less than a...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Virology
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Innovation gives good reason for optimism

September 9, 2020
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With most of us beginning to turn our thoughts back to running our businesses against the backdrop of a COVID-stricken economy, Dr Mark Tock points out that recessions create both...
Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Covid-19
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Lockdown blues: insights from an inheritor

September 9, 2020
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Reviewing lockdown life and attempts at emergence into a limited ‘new normal’ with no previous experience of what ‘normal’ career entry should look like, Amy Grace offers a first-hand perspective...
Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Covid-19
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A researchers guide to lockdown

September 8, 2020
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We may all be stuck at home but there is still science to be done! Dr Matthew Partridge explores the options while taking his own advice…
Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Covid-19
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Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar

September 1, 2020
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An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoes in Florida to combat diseases mosquito-related diseases. Dermot Martin looks into the facts of...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Developmental Biology, Environment, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Parasitology, Virology, Zoology
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How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk

September 1, 2020
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2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China mutated to allow it to infect humans too. Within 3 months...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharmaceutical
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Bringing innate immunity centre stage in COVID-19 combat

August 17, 2020
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A recent Canadian paper [1] has acknowledged that the innate immune system could have a direct effect on the body’s ability to respond to COVID-19, and we must continue to...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Virology
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Can efficiency and sustainability coexist?

August 17, 2020
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Allison Paradise, CEO of My Green lab, a non-profit organization and Marc Boreham vice president and general manager of Agilent's Laboratory Enterprise Solutions Division share their views on the interplay...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Food Science, Forensics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Medical cannabis growth could offer boom for lab industry

August 12, 2020
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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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health & Safety, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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COVID-19 testing will be standard for clinical trials

August 7, 2020
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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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physiology, Policy
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How COVID-19 kills: a tale of two conditions

August 7, 2020
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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...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Molecular Biology, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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AI transformation in a post-pandemic world

August 3, 2020
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Ross Upton considers how COVID-19 is driving the use of AI to protect and transform public health now and, potentially, into the future…
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotech, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Virology
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