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Teachers outperform parents in the remote classroom

January 13, 2021
As the UK embraces another national lockdown and parents brace themselves for a second round of homeschooling, a US study demonstrates that remote support from schools is essential to the...

Interferon-induced ACE2 production shown to be safe and even effective against COVID-19

January 11, 2021
While ACE2 proteins are known to be the vehicle used by COVID-19 to enter the nose and lungs, the previously worrying increase in ACE2 found to occur as a result...

COVID vaccine trial data peer review: Moderna-NIAID partnership

January 5, 2021
A published peer review agrees data from the collaboration between Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Phase 3 clinical trial confirm the resulting vaccine is...

Accurate COVID-19 test results in only five minutes

January 5, 2021
University of Birmingham researchers have devised a new Reverse Transcriptase Free EXPAR (RTF-EXPAR) testing method. While offering broader applications, it will first be used to create an accurate COVID-19 test...

Coronavirus vaccine: understanding trial results, roll-out and what happens next

January 4, 2021
Rob Reddick, The Conversation Coronavirus vaccines are being administered. Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was the first to finish the final stage of testing – known as phase 3 – and the...

Global clinical research accreditation and certification mark

December 16, 2020
New evidence-based clinical research certification mark to set a global blenchmark for quality and consistency across operational standards and patient experience. Accreditation will facilitate the development and alignment of site...

A Christmas story for Resusci Annie

December 14, 2020
After more than a hundred years, the girl who seems always to be unresponsive to either voice or pain checks, unconsious and in need of CPR is given a story...

C21 pill shows clear and significant clinical benefit for COVID patients

December 9, 2020
Study shows a clear and significant clinical benefit for COVID patients using an oral C21 formulation (a selective agonist of angiotensin AT2 receptors) with an excellent safety and tolerability profile....

Immunisation cold chain equipment demand already ‘off the charts’

December 8, 2020
It may be a cold day in the UK when demand for vaccine cold chain equipment outstrips supply capabilities. Manufacturers of the specialist equipment needed to support the safe and...

Roadblocking COVID: new system predicts direction, speed and acceleration of virus

December 4, 2020
The key to pandemic protection is preparedeness and prevention and now dynamic, predictive COVID surveillance joins the global anti-pandemic arsenal thanks to a novel system developed by US researchers. Nowing...

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