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2D or not 2D? That is the question...

Added: 5 Oct 2020

As the Government’s test and trace system once again comes under fire, Steve Knight laments a misse…

The #coronavaccine prisoner exchange scenario

Added: 29 Sep 2020

Against a backdrop of Russian cyber-conspiracies, Russ Swan takes a critical look at the UK vaccine…

Fast-tracking nanovaccines to fight coronavirus

Added: 10 Sep 2020

Today, there are more than 150 COVID-19 vaccines in the race to mitigate the virus.1-3 Some of thes…

Lockdown blues: insights from an inheritor

Added: 10 Sep 2020

Reviewing lockdown life and attempts at emergence into a limited ‘new normal’ with no previous expe…

Innovation gives good reason for optimism

Added: 10 Sep 2020

With most of us beginning to turn our thoughts back to running our businesses against the backdrop …

A researchers guide to lockdown

Added: 9 Sep 2020

We may all be stuck at home but there is still science to be done! Dr Matthew Partridge explores th…

Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar

Added: 1 Sep 2020

An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoe…

How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk

Added: 1 Sep 2020

2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China…

Bringing innate immunity centre stage in COVID-19 combat

Added: 17 Aug 2020

A recent Canadian paper [1] has acknowledged that the innate immune system could have a direct effe…

Medical cannabis growth could offer boom for lab industry

Added: 12 Aug 2020

Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients pres…

COVID-19 testing will be standard for clinical trials

Added: 7 Aug 2020

Clinical trial specialist, Bärbel Wilke expects corona testing for both virus and antibody detectio…

How COVID-19 kills: a tale of two conditions

Added: 7 Aug 2020

Steve Walton, explains why he believes the majority of patients that die after being infected with …

AI transformation in a post-pandemic world

Added: 3 Aug 2020

Ross Upton considers how COVID-19 is driving the use of AI to protect and transform public health n…

Game review: Evolution

Added: 1 Aug 2020

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Can potentially detect subtle early signs of fake #coronaltruism

Added: 27 Jul 2020

Delving into a rising tide of pandemic-driven inbox clutter, Russ Swan calls bogus on many a poorly…

Improving animal research: New ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines released

Added: 15 Jul 2020

A previous version of the ARRIVE guidelines for the rigorous reporting of animal studies was publis…

Public perception of biomedical science damaged by Covid-19

Added: 9 Jul 2020

In a recent interview for the Laboratory News Podcast, virologist Dr Sarah Pitt spoke of concerns t…

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

Added: 8 Jul 2020

Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of COVID-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went la…

Keeping governments accountable: The COVID-10 assessment scorecard

Added: 16 Jun 2020

A new commentary published in Nature Medicine calls for governments to recognise the urgent need to…

Lawmakers called to protect biomedical science from false claims

Added: 5 Jun 2020

Great Medical Promises Threatened by Booming Miracle Cures and Undue Pressure to Gain Fast-Track Ap…