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Rats recognise rhythm

May 26, 2020
Musical rhythm has very deep evolutionary roots and is present in some animals, according to a study of the biological foundations of music conducted in a mouse model by Alexandre...

DIY reagents for COVID-19 testing

May 19, 2020
Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create more crucial reagents for use in COVID-19 tests that could also provide enhancements to...

Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs

May 17, 2020
Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic environments such as transport hubs to enable improved management to prevent transmission and slow the...

Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing

May 17, 2020
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...

Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data

May 12, 2020
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...

AI to map impact of COVID-19 on the heart

May 11, 2020
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...

What’s your poison?

May 10, 2020
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.

Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 has not mutated

May 5, 2020
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.

Activation of the SARS coronavirus 2 revealed

May 5, 2020
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)...

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