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Making a clean break from plastics
July 16, 2021
Plastic is no longer fantastic. Nadine Bellamy-Thomas looks at how laboratories are adopting more sustainable practices, trending away from single-use plastics, returning to glassware where possible and managing water consumption...
New report recommends antibody testing within the Covid-19 vaccination programme
July 8, 2021
Antibody testing can be used to identify the minority of people who have a sub-optimal response to Covid-19 vaccination, this is estimated to be up to 10 per cent of...
Breakthrough for tracking RNA with fluorescence
July 7, 2021
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in developing a method to label mRNA molecules, and thereby follow, in real time, their path through cells, using a microscope...
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
A CRISPECTOR calls with fresh insight to gene editing errors
July 5, 2021
An Israeli research team claims new software can detect unintended consequences of gene editing. Here, Dermot Martin unpacks the research that applies statistical modelling to determine and quantify editing activity....
Tackling underlying respiratory conditions for this pandemic and next
July 5, 2021
Innovation ecosystems are crucial to improving outcomes for patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis. With a third wave of the current pandemic now seemingly inevitable and those with underlying conditions still...
Researchers reduce severity of sleep apnoea by at least 30 per cent
July 5, 2021
Imagine waking up a hundred times every night not being able to breathe! Believe it or not, data suggests this actually happens to around one and a half million adults...
Women in STEM see equality slip during the pandemic
June 11, 2021
Despite some good work over the years, it has become apparent that there is yet more work to be done and ground to be made up when it comes to...
Electron microscopy just became a thousand times more efficient
June 3, 2021
Imaging a million samples a second to make electron microscopy a thousand times more efficient, the new 'Ruska' microscope will be able to see proteins fold and capture drug molecules...
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Environment, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Particle Physics, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physics, Physiology
Will remote clinical trials help or hinder?
May 28, 2021
With the current world focus on remote solutions, some contract services appear to benefit from place-independence. But Ellie Robertson discusses why, when looked at in greater depth, remote trials aren't...
UKRI funding to bring the public into the heart of five research projects
May 27, 2021
UK Research and Innovation is encouraging people from across the UK to actively contribute to five groundbreaking research projects. By pledging support for citizen science and citizen led research and...
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