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Potential new treatment for COVID-19 identified

November 1, 2021
Researchers have identified a potential new treatment that suppresses the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. In order to multiply, all viruses, including coronaviruses, infect cells and reprogramme...

How food and drink labs have adapted since COVID-19

October 27, 2021
With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the mass stock-piling of food products like chicken, flour and eggs. This had a major knock-on effect on food and drinks...

New mechanism that regulates the spread of breast cancer discovered

October 22, 2021
A research group at the University of Turku, Finland, has discovered a completely new mechanism that cells use to circulate integrins on the cell surface. Aggressive breast cancer cells exploit...

New potential factor contributing to severity of COVID-19 identified

September 27, 2021
Researchers have found that the so-called 'do not eat me', virus-induced signal protein, CD47, may be responsible for the development of life-threatening COVID-19 symptoms in some individuals. By preventing the...

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...

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...

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...

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