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2D or not 2D? That is the question…
October 5, 2020
As the Government’s test and trace system once again comes under fire, Steve Knight laments a missed opportunity to listen to the advice of technicians and the surprising impact that...

The #coronavaccine prisoner exchange scenario
September 29, 2020
Against a backdrop of Russian cyber-conspiracies, Russ Swan takes a critical look at the UK vaccine effort and delivers a theory of his own…

Fast-tracking nanovaccines to fight coronavirus
September 10, 2020
Today, there are more than 150 COVID-19 vaccines in the race to mitigate the virus.1-3 Some of these vaccines have already reached Phase III clinical trials in less than a...
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Innovation gives good reason for optimism
September 9, 2020
With most of us beginning to turn our thoughts back to running our businesses against the backdrop of a COVID-stricken economy, Dr Mark Tock points out that recessions create both...

Lockdown blues: insights from an inheritor
September 9, 2020
Reviewing lockdown life and attempts at emergence into a limited ‘new normal’ with no previous experience of what ‘normal’ career entry should look like, Amy Grace offers a first-hand perspective...

A researchers guide to lockdown
September 8, 2020
We may all be stuck at home but there is still science to be done! Dr Matthew Partridge explores the options while taking his own advice…

Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar
September 1, 2020
An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoes in Florida to combat diseases mosquito-related diseases. Dermot Martin looks into the facts of...

How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk
September 1, 2020
2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China mutated to allow it to infect humans too. Within 3 months...

Bringing innate immunity centre stage in COVID-19 combat
August 17, 2020
A recent Canadian paper [1] has acknowledged that the innate immune system could have a direct effect on the body’s ability to respond to COVID-19, and we must continue to...

Medical cannabis growth could offer boom for lab industry
August 12, 2020
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients prescribed cannabis-based medicines — and is the removal of yet another barrier in a market expected...

