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COVID-19 may impact fight-or-flight response in young adults

August 9, 2021
New collaborative research using microneurography suggests COVID-19 may alter the fight-or-flight response in young adults, potentially distrupting many bodily processes and providing insight into 'long-COVID' symptoms. Pain response, lung function,...

Get ready for Lab Awards 2021

August 9, 2021
Brand new in 2021, the Lab Awards will be taking place at the ICC in Birmingham on the evening of November 3, 2021 — the first night of Lab Innovations....

Glycoproteomics: a new era in biomarkers

August 6, 2021
Klaus Lindpaintner takes us on a journey of discovery, automation and scale-up that has applied AI to mass spectrometry data analysis to deliver a portfolio of glycoproteomic classifiers in more...

All eyes on Lab Innovations 2021

August 5, 2021
At Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry, professionals, scientists, researchers and more will come together and do business for the first time in 2021. On...

Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson’s disease

August 2, 2021
Researchers have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berries and other fruits, prevents and reverses brain damage linked to Parkinson's disease in mouse studies....

Are all mammals just copy cats? Felines to play a key role in human genetics

July 30, 2021
The feline genome is ordered similarly to humans according to one veterinary medicine expert. So, cats have the potential to be a valuable model organism for geneticists to help understand...

The mind-boggling complexity of scientific waste

July 30, 2021
Why is scientific waste disposal complicated? Dr Matthew Partridge muses on that gap in student and researcher health and safety training, investigates documentation, and considers how we all might remember...

Gene variant discovery could help treat Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain disorders

July 29, 2021
New research suggests early changes in brain metabolism may explain the neurodegeneration suffered by Alzheimer's patients. Discovery of a special gene variant, that causes astrocytes of the brain and exhausts...

Shipping biologicals – the journey of human tissue samples

July 29, 2021
Medical research relies on routine and specialist biological samples which must be handled with great care. Here, Fiona MacKenzie takes us behind the scenes with a clinical services team to...

The journey to net zero carbon science

July 26, 2021
With a 2050 deadline for all buildings in the UK to be operationally net zero carbon, Tim Fry discusses the challenges faced by energy intensive building owners and occupiers and...

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