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Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025

June 25, 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human rights and biomedical technologies. Governance of technologies, equity in health care and physical and...

Higher rates of severe COVID-19 in ethnic minorities remain unexplained

June 23, 2020
Higher rates of severe COVID-19 infections among ethnic minorities are not explained by socioeconomic or behavioural factors, cardiovascular disease risk, or by vitamin D status, according to new research led...

Global alliance for collaborative digital health

June 10, 2020
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, today launched a new series of programs to help organisations collaborate on...

GSK partners CRISPR discoverer to develop rapid COVID-19 test

June 4, 2020
Gene editor turns gene detective: Dermot Martin investigates a successful COVID-19 test development collaboration... A California-based company created to develop CRISPR gene editing technology, is collaborating with the UK's GlaxoSmithKline...

A roadmap for effective treatment of COVID-19

May 29, 2020
Due to the devastating worldwide impact of COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, there has been unprecedented efforts by clinicians and researchers from around the world to quickly...

Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data

May 12, 2020
A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research, one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, has responded to a request from the White House, Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg...

AI to map impact of COVID-19 on the heart

May 11, 2020
A joint UK-US research team is applying a pioneering artificial intelligence system to map how the COVID-19 virus attacks the heart with such deadly impact. The collaboration aims to quantify...

Why men are more vulnerable to Covid-19 than women

May 11, 2020
Evidence from a large study of several thousand patients shows that men have higher concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in their blood than women. Since ACE2 enables the coronavirus...

Cyber warning issued for key healthcare organisations

May 5, 2020
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a cyber security warning to healthcare organisations involved in the COVID-19 response. Following publication of the lasted joint advisory, the NCSC and...

A question of reagents

April 30, 2020
At the time of writing, more than 1.3M people have been infected and more than 72,600 deaths have been linked to the current outbreak of coronavirus. We caught up with...

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