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How food and drink labs have adapted since COVID-19

October 27, 2021
With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the mass stock-piling of food products like chicken, flour and eggs. This had a major knock-on effect on food and drinks...

Manufacture your own DNA… the easy way

October 26, 2021
In this over-burdened global market, many laboratories may be struggling to access a reliable supply of oligonucleotides. Here, Sylvain Gariel introduces the latest in Enzymatic DNA synthesis (EDS) technology enabling...

Shape-shifting worm blob model could inspire future robot swarms

October 26, 2021
Lumbriculus variegatus blackworms can aggregate into ‘blobs’ capable of collective movement. Researchers observed blackworms to model the behaviour of individual worms, as well as the formation and movement of blobs....

Scientists uncover a gene involved in sexual conflict in fruit flies

October 22, 2021
Sexual conflict in fruit flies is governed by specifically wired neurons in the brain which have been pinpointed by scientists at the University of Birmingham, UK. Research offers a way...

Four challenges to overcome for AI to thrive in medical imaging

October 20, 2021
With increased digitisation in medical clinics, comes increased reliance on AI-enabled tools to more efficiently assess and select diagnostic outcomes using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms based on machine learning techniques....

Trans-disciplinary approaches reveal important disease transmission dynamics

October 4, 2021
New research reveals the complex multi-host-species and multi-parasite-species disease transmission dynamics, paving the way for a more comprehensive understanding of how certain zoonotic diseases, such as schistosomiasis, can be controlled...

New potential factor contributing to severity of COVID-19 identified

September 27, 2021
Researchers have found that the so-called 'do not eat me', virus-induced signal protein, CD47, may be responsible for the development of life-threatening COVID-19 symptoms in some individuals. By preventing the...

Fitness beats weight loss for obesity-related health conditions

September 22, 2021
New research finds that increasing physical activity and improving fitness appear to be superior to weight loss for getting healthy and reducing mortality risk. Employing a weight-neutral approach to the...

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