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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.

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...

Are all mammals just copy cats? Felines to play a key role in human genetics

July 30, 2021
The feline genome is ordered similarly to humans according to one veterinary medicine expert. So, cats have the potential to be a valuable model organism for geneticists to help understand...

Shipping biologicals – the journey of human tissue samples

July 29, 2021
Medical research relies on routine and specialist biological samples which must be handled with great care. Here, Fiona MacKenzie takes us behind the scenes with a clinical services team to...

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