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UK vaccine capability enjoys a >£100M cash boost
July 24, 2020
The UK is at the forefront of international efforts to research and develop a COVID-19 vaccine and has provided £131 million funding to University of Oxford and Imperial College London...
UK-based in-depth study of early COVID-19 detection
July 24, 2020
UK digital health and therapeutics company Huma is teaming up with the renowned Fenland Study research team at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge to begin...
Study delivers animal replacement method for vaccine testing
July 23, 2020
Dutch, Bilthoven based, Intravacc, a global leader intranslational research and development of viral and bacterial vaccines, today announced the publication of a study in Scientific Reports on alternatives to the...
First US-statewide COVID-19 random sample study findings published
July 23, 2020
The results of the first statewide random sample study in the United States to measure the spread of COVID-19 indicated a general population prevalence of about 2.8 percent in Indiana....
Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus
July 23, 2020
Airborne and potentially deadly, the virus that causes COVID-19 can only be studied safely under high-level biosafety conditions. Scientists handling the infectious virus must wear full-body biohazard suits with pressurised...
Cryogenic electron microscopy freeze-frames SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
July 22, 2020
The rod-like spike proteins on the surface of SARS CoV-2 are the tip of the spear of the COVID-19 pandemic. The spikes bind to human cells via the ACE2 receptor...
Machine learning helps grow artificial organs
July 17, 2020
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, and the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Schepens Eye Research Institute have developed a neural network capable of...
Improving animal research: New ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines released
July 15, 2020
A previous version of the ARRIVE guidelines for the rigorous reporting of animal studies was published in 2010 by the UK-based science organisation, the NC3Rs. Now, ten years later, new...
5G could support telesurgery during COVID-19 pandemic
July 14, 2020
A surgeon demonstrated how telesurgery could be successfully performed using robotic technology and a 5G network by operating on a cadaver patient from 15 km away. The low latency and...
New molecular tool precisely edits mitochondrial DNA
July 14, 2020
The genome in mitochondria -- the cell's energy-producing organelles -- is involved in disease and key biological functions, and the ability to precisely alter this DNA would allow scientists to...
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