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Why all newborns should receive BCG vaccine

May 6, 2020
An international research team has identified the mechanism behind one of science's most enduring mysteries: what makes the 100-year-old tuberculosis (TB) vaccine so effective at preventing newborn deaths from diseases...

Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 has not mutated

May 5, 2020
Analysis work from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research provides evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has not mutated into different types.

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...

Novel potential Covid-19 treatments discovered

April 29, 2020
A UK-based biotechnology firm has announced the discovery of two separate novel treatments for Covid-19 patients before they are put on ventilators. They are now urgently seeking funding of £4m...

Good science communication is vital

April 27, 2020
There is no more important time to get science communication right than during a pandemic. But, says Melanie Challenger, that is harder than it seems…

Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19

April 27, 2020
Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx19 dataset; the first human cellular morphological dataset of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). The human cellular morphological data and over 1,600...

BIA #TestingMethods2020 Update

April 27, 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine trials start in the UK, testing scales up and knowledge economy support package valued by members.

New collaboration to drive understanding of COVID-19

April 26, 2020
A new collaboration between Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins will work to identify target receptors for COVID-19 and advance understanding of the cellular mechanisms of infection by COVID-19.

Knowing a lot about very little

August 19, 2019
The potential of nanomedicine to tackle many diseases is immense, but we really don't know much about how they get into cells and what potential damage – as well as...

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