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Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing

May 17, 2020
News
In light of the UK government’s request for employers to enable staff to safely return to work where possible, the imperative for employers to implement upgraded health and safety monitoring...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Health, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Policy
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Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data

May 12, 2020
News
A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research, one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, has responded to a request from the White House, Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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AI to map impact of COVID-19 on the heart

May 11, 2020
News
A joint UK-US research team is applying a pioneering artificial intelligence system to map how the COVID-19 virus attacks the heart with such deadly impact. The collaboration aims to quantify...
Life Sciences
Biology, Biophysics, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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WIN: A Tale of Seven Scientists

May 11, 2020
News
And a new philosophy of scienceWritten by Eric Scerri
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Physics, Policy
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What’s your poison?

May 10, 2020
Feature
Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-master Steve Trim explains how evolution can give us a Pharmaceutical short-cut.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 has not mutated

May 5, 2020
News
Analysis work from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research provides evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has not mutated into different types.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Health, Immunology, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Activation of the SARS coronavirus 2 revealed

May 5, 2020
News
The Infection Biology Unit of the German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research has now shown that the activation sequence for entry of SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Cell Biology, Covid-19, Genetics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology
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Real-time observation of enzymatic processes on DNA

May 3, 2020
News
Scientists at the University of Konstanz have used infrared spectroscopy to visualise the biochemical processes that take place at DNA strand breaks involving PARP1. These observations could provide important insight...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Molecular Biology, Pharmaceutical
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A counterintuitive approach to treating Covid-19

May 3, 2020
News
A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body's immune system during the early stages of COVID-19 could help a patient avoid severe symptoms. Research, published online in the...
Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Health, Medical/Health, Virology
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A question of reagents

April 30, 2020
Insight
At the time of writing, more than 1.3M people have been infected and more than 72,600 deaths have been linked to the current outbreak of coronavirus. We caught up with...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Cell Biology, Covid-19, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Interviews, Medical/Health
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