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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 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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Novel potential Covid-19 treatments discovered

April 29, 2020
News
A UK-based biotechnology firm has announced the discovery of two separate novel treatments for Covid-19 patients before they are put on ventilators. They are now urgently seeking funding of £4m...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19

April 27, 2020
News
Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx19 dataset; the first human cellular morphological dataset of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). The human cellular morphological data and over 1,600...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Good science communication is vital

April 27, 2020
Insight
There is no more important time to get science communication right than during a pandemic. But, says Melanie Challenger, that is harder than it seems…
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biotech, Covid-19, Health, Immunology, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Going round in circles

April 9, 2020
Feature
Single use plastics are a staple in the lab – but they are also are part of the plastics pollution problem. Here Bill Walford talks to Jeremy Carter about his...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Earth & Environmental, Engineering, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Forensics, Geology, In Depth, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Antibody from SARS epidemic reacts with Coronavirus

April 9, 2020
News
An antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s has revealed a potential vulnerability of COVID-19, according to a new study.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Health/Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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We need to talk about live wet-markets

April 6, 2020
Insight
How do we make sure this doesn’t happen ever again? How do we reduce novel zoonotics in our species?
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Coronavirus – is it just “a type of ‘flu”?

April 2, 2020
Feature
The virology, genomics, epidemiology and medical response – Chief Virology Examiner at the Institute of Biomedical Science, Dr Sarah Pitt, sums up current thinking on coronaviruses and compares the outbreak...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Covid-19, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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WIN: Visions of Science

April 2, 2020
Produced by the Art in Research gallery – the first art gallery dedicated to scientific photography – this wonderful tome shows moments of beauty captured by researchers in their laboratory....
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Food & Bev, Pharmaceutical
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