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Good science communication is vital

April 27, 2020
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…

Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19

April 27, 2020
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...

BIA #TestingMethods2020 Update

April 27, 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine trials start in the UK, testing scales up and knowledge economy support package valued by members.

New collaboration to drive understanding of COVID-19

April 26, 2020
A new collaboration between Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins will work to identify target receptors for COVID-19 and advance understanding of the cellular mechanisms of infection by COVID-19.

Antibody from SARS epidemic reacts with Coronavirus

April 9, 2020
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.

We need to talk about live wet-markets

April 6, 2020
How do we make sure this doesn’t happen ever again? How do we reduce novel zoonotics in our species?

Coronavirus – is it just “a type of ‘flu”?

April 2, 2020
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...

Consortium to develop COVID-19 vaccine

April 2, 2020
University of Oxford researchers working in an unprecedented vaccine development effort to prevent COVID-19 have started screening healthy volunteers

Investment to map COVID-19

March 24, 2020
The government have announced a £20 million investment to map how COVID-19 spreads and behaves by using whole genome sequencing.

Team release coronavirus inhibition results

March 10, 2020
A team using computer-aided methods to identify possible new drugs to combat the current coronavirus outbreak and similar epidemics in the future is releasing their results immediately.

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