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Eliminating food waste – now is the time for your FLW initiative

August 31, 2021
The staggering statistics around food loss and waste (FLW), from field to consumer, highlight the need for us all to do what we can. Every business and individual – whether...

From Lab to market: Navigating venture capital in life sciences

August 31, 2021
Venture capital (VC) is a vital form of funding for taking scientific ideas from lab to market, but for many academic scientists, negotiating with investors will be uncharted territory. Here,...

Celebrating 50 years with the mother of ‘ELISA’

August 27, 2021
In an exclusive interview with Dermot Martin, Eva Engvall discusses the invention and evolution of ELISA, the fifty-year old analysis technique that sits at the heart of COVID testing kits.

Scientists get second opinion from AI on tell-tale heart

August 26, 2021
The single biggest global cause of death is heart disease. Changes in the electrical signals associated with the heartbeat can provide doctors with an early warning for potentially lethal conditions,...

3 Ingredients for Effective Pharmaceutical Cybersecurity

August 26, 2021
The pharmaceutical industry faces growing pressure from cyber threats. Attacks on manufacturers and organizations involved in pharmaceutical logistics, like the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain, are becoming more frequent. In many...

UK launches national antibody surveillance programme

August 25, 2021
For the first time, UK Health Security Agency to launch UK-wide antibody surveillance programme for the general public. Antibody testing will now be offered to adults across the UK who...

The one hundredth column from a heart-filled nerd

August 20, 2021
Never doing anything by halves and much to the relief of friends, family, and this editor, Russ Swan walks out of hospital, lands on Mars and celebrates ingenuity, the NHS,...

Food or sex? Fruit flies give insight into decision-making

August 17, 2021
Individuals are likely to prioritise food over sex after being deprived of both, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham, who studied this behavioural conflict in fruit flies. A...

Driving precision medicine into frontline healthcare

August 16, 2021
Improved patient safety demands greater specificity to ensure therapeutic efficiency. Here, Tom Renn looks at some of the pioneering companies driving the precision medicine technologies that will support this level...

Study debunks myth that carnivores roam wild in absence of humans

August 13, 2021
As people sheltered in place at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, sightings of wildlife in urban areas helped spawn a meme, “Nature is healing,” that reflected an intuitive belief:...

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