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Monitoring COVID-19 plasma viscosity
Added: 3 Jul 2020
A clinical viscosity diagnostic instrument is proving to be valuable in the research and treatment …

First volunteer receives new Imperial COVID-19 vaccine
Added: 26 Jun 2020
The first healthy volunteer has received a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers led by …

UK Gov invests £400 million in innovation
Added: 26 Jun 2020
Seven major research and innovation projects across the UK have today (Friday 26 June) received ove…

New antiviral technology supports reusable COVID-19 facemasks
Added: 25 Jun 2020
Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and ITA RWTH Aachen, two of the most recognised academic …

Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025
Added: 25 Jun 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human right…

Honey, I shrunk the cell culture
Added: 24 Jun 2020
From ‘Fantastic Voyage’ to ‘Despicable Me’, shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple on scree…

Higher rates of severe COVID-19 in ethnic minorities remain unexplained
Added: 23 Jun 2020
Higher rates of severe COVID-19 infections among ethnic minorities are not explained by socioeconom…

Webinar: Accepting animal-free bacterial endotoxin testing
Added: 15 Jun 2020
European, US, Japanese and Chinese pharmacopeia will include a synthetic substitute for horseshoe c…

First adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine receives EU approval
Added: 15 Jun 2020
The European Commission has now given regulatory approval for the first adjuvanted quadrivalent inf…

Widespread facemask use could shrink the 'R' number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevent…

A roadmap for effective treatment of COVID-19
Added: 29 May 2020
Due to the devastating worldwide impact of COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, th…

DIY reagents for COVID-19 testing
Added: 20 May 2020
Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create s…

Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs
Added: 18 May 2020
Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic…

Why all newborns should receive BCG vaccine
Added: 7 May 2020
An international research team has identified the mechanism behind one of science's most enduring m…

Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 has not mutated
Added: 6 May 2020
Analysis work from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research provides evidence that S…

Novel potential Covid-19 treatments discovered
Added: 30 Apr 2020
A UK-based biotechnology firm has announced the discovery of two separate novel treatments for Covi…

BIA #TestingMethods2020 Update
Added: 28 Apr 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine trials start in the UK, testing scales up and knowledge economy support package va…
Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19
Added: 28 Apr 2020
Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx1…

New collaboration to drive understanding of COVID-19
Added: 27 Apr 2020
A new collaboration between Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins will work to…

Alderley Park to run Japanese AMR therapy
Added: 23 Jul 2019
Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi is out-licensing its anti-virulence therapy to the AMR Cen…