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First rapid breath test for Coronavirus trialled

September 4, 2020
News
Canterbury-based technology firm ANCON Medical (‘Ancon’) announces the trial of its Nanotechnology Biomarker Tagging (NBT) system, to provide a breath test to diagnose Coronavirus in 10 -15 minutes. The system,...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
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New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’

September 4, 2020
News
A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19 testing capacity, in an investment creating 400 jobs.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
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How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk

September 1, 2020
Insight
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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
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Coronavirus ‘trap and zap’ technology

August 24, 2020
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Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technology to capture and deactivate the virus that causes COVID-19. Image: A schematic of the SARS-CoV-2 viral particle, which...
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Converting self-sterilising water filtration technologies for COVID-19 protection

August 24, 2020
News
With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that self-sterilises and decontaminates is being developed at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel...
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Atmospheric Sciences, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oceanography
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Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank

August 18, 2020
News
Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply network, creating one of the largest virtual biobanks worldwide accessible to life science innovators.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
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Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain

August 17, 2020
News
Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014, with an increasing proportion of positive samples found along the wildlife supply...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Parasitology, Virology, Zoology
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Bringing innate immunity centre stage in COVID-19 combat

August 17, 2020
Insight
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...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Virology
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AI stratification significantly improves treatment outcomes for COVID-19 patients

August 11, 2020
News
AN EIT Health project demonstrates early positive results on improving treatment outcomes of patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19 (as part of the EIT’s Crisis Response Initiative, this project directly contributes...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
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COVID-19 testing will be standard for clinical trials

August 7, 2020
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Clinical trial specialist, Bärbel Wilke expects corona testing for both virus and antibody detection to become standard for the recruitment and continued participation of patients in clinical trials. Catherine Featherston...
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