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Scientists and policy experts raise COVID-19 and climate crises analogues

July 8, 2020
Insight
Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of COVID-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went largely ignored until rising infection rates forced policymakers to take action. Likewise, climate and environmental scientists...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Health, Medical/Health, Policy
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Fighting E. coli with E. coli

July 7, 2020
News
According to findings from a new gut-in-a-dish study published in mBio, Nissle, a strain of Escherichia coli, is harmless to intestinal tissue and may protect the gut from enterohemorrhagic E....
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Monitoring COVID-19 plasma viscosity

July 3, 2020
News
A clinical viscosity diagnostic instrument is proving to be valuable in the research and treatment of coronavirus after laboratory scientists have identified its ability to provide meaningful data for medical...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Covid-19, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Molecular Biology
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Instant diagnostic photonics scan for bladder cancer (BLC)

July 2, 2020
News
Thousands of lives lost to bladder cancers each year could be saved thanks to a new scanner that uses photonics to illuminate parts of the tissue that are currently impossible...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Oncology, Particle Physics, Physics
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New method reveals how Parkinson’s protein damages cell membranes

July 2, 2020
News
In sufferers of Parkinson's disease, clumps of α-synuclein (alpha-synuclein), sometimes known as the ‘Parkinson’s protein’, are found in the brain. These destroy cell membranes, eventually resulting in cell death. Now,...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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More gain, less pain with liquid biopsies

June 26, 2020
Feature
Following on from a previous article; Liquid Gold, published on 21 January 2019, Dermot Martin revisits the topic of liquid biopsies in the post pandemic era in the light of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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First volunteer receives new Imperial COVID-19 vaccine

June 26, 2020
News
The first healthy volunteer has received a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers led by Professor Robin Shattock at Imperial College London. The phase I trials were funded by UKRI...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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UK Gov invests £400 million in innovation

June 26, 2020
News
Seven major research and innovation projects across the UK have today (Friday 26 June) received over £400 million in government and industry funding. Businesses and universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast,...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Policy
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Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025

June 25, 2020
News
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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Oncology, Paleobiology, Parasitology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physiology, Policy, Virology
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Higher rates of severe COVID-19 in ethnic minorities remain unexplained

June 23, 2020
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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