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Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank

Added: 18 Aug 2020

Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply net…

Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain

Added: 17 Aug 2020

Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014,…

First UK COVID-19 vaccine to be manufactured in Wales

Added: 3 Aug 2020

Wockhardt, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology major today announced that it has entered in…

UK vaccine capability enjoys a >£100M cash boost

Added: 24 Jul 2020

The UK is at the forefront of international efforts to research and develop a COVID-19 vaccine and …

UK-based in-depth study of early COVID-19 detection

Added: 24 Jul 2020

UK digital health and therapeutics company Huma is teaming up with the renowned Fenland Study resea…

Study delivers animal replacement method for vaccine testing

Added: 23 Jul 2020

Dutch, Bilthoven based, Intravacc, a global leader intranslational research and development of vira…

First US-statewide COVID-19 random sample study findings published

Added: 23 Jul 2020

The results of the first statewide random sample study in the United States to measure the spread o…

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Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus

Added: 23 Jul 2020

Airborne and potentially deadly, the virus that causes COVID-19 can only be studied safely under hi…

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…

Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces

Added: 11 Jun 2020

One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the d…

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 counterintuitive approach to treating Covid-19

Added: 4 May 2020

A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body's immune system during the early sta…

Procarta awarded £7.4M for microbial treatment

Added: 23 Sep 2019

Biotechnology company Procarta Biosystems will receive up to £7.4 million to develop a new class of…

Ebola patients cured with mAb drugs

Added: 13 Aug 2019

Two monoclonal antibody drugs will be used to treat Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Co…

HIV virus eliminated with CRISPR and new antiretroviral therapy

Added: 4 Jul 2019

Replication-competent HIV-1 DNA – the virus responsible for AIDS – has been eliminated from the gen…

Protein key to malaria parasite’s lifecycle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Oct 2018

New research suggests that a regulator protein, AP2-G, may hold the key to finding new approaches t…

Nobel prize winning tech reveals herpes virus structure

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2018

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have used cryo-electron microscopy to reveal the detailed …

Bacteria used to block dengue and Zika

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2018

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have found a bacterial strain which blocks dengue and Zika …

New test can detect any virus

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2015

Scientists have designed a test that can detect not only any known virus type and subtype but also …

Origin of new lineages of human AIDS discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2015

Two new lineages of the virus which causes AIDS have been found to originate from western lowland g…