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The sweet sense of sustainability – repurposing sugar

September 10, 2021
As we all look to our waistlines, understanding more about healthy eating and seeking to make healthier choices in our diet, Christiane Luley is researching how we might usefully repurpose...

NHS takes steps to minimise impact of blood tube shortage

September 9, 2021
The Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) has delivered a clarification statement regarding the shortage of blood test tubes and the resulting backlog in patient testing. While the situation will have...

UK vaccination programme: More to be done!

September 9, 2021
Think tanks calls for Government to continue momentum from COVID-19 vaccination programme as winter flu season approaches "The COVID-19 vaccination programme has allowed the nation to tentatively recover from the...

Celebrating 50 years with the mother of ‘ELISA’

August 27, 2021
In an exclusive interview with Dermot Martin, Eva Engvall discusses the invention and evolution of ELISA, the fifty-year old analysis technique that sits at the heart of COVID testing kits.

Scientists get second opinion from AI on tell-tale heart

August 26, 2021
The single biggest global cause of death is heart disease. Changes in the electrical signals associated with the heartbeat can provide doctors with an early warning for potentially lethal conditions,...

UK launches national antibody surveillance programme

August 25, 2021
For the first time, UK Health Security Agency to launch UK-wide antibody surveillance programme for the general public. Antibody testing will now be offered to adults across the UK who...

The one hundredth column from a heart-filled nerd

August 20, 2021
Never doing anything by halves and much to the relief of friends, family, and this editor, Russ Swan walks out of hospital, lands on Mars and celebrates ingenuity, the NHS,...

Driving precision medicine into frontline healthcare

August 16, 2021
Improved patient safety demands greater specificity to ensure therapeutic efficiency. Here, Tom Renn looks at some of the pioneering companies driving the precision medicine technologies that will support this level...

COVID-19 may impact fight-or-flight response in young adults

August 9, 2021
New collaborative research using microneurography suggests COVID-19 may alter the fight-or-flight response in young adults, potentially distrupting many bodily processes and providing insight into 'long-COVID' symptoms. Pain response, lung function,...

Glycoproteomics: a new era in biomarkers

August 6, 2021
Klaus Lindpaintner takes us on a journey of discovery, automation and scale-up that has applied AI to mass spectrometry data analysis to deliver a portfolio of glycoproteomic classifiers in more...

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