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First rapid breath test for Coronavirus trialled

September 4, 2020
News
Canterbury-based technology firm ANCON Medical (‘Ancon’) announces the trial of its Nanotechnology Biomarker Tagging (NBT) system, to provide a breath test to diagnose Coronavirus in 10 -15 minutes. The system,...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Pharmacology
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New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’

September 4, 2020
News
A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19 testing capacity, in an investment creating 400 jobs.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physiology
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Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar

September 1, 2020
Insight
An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoes in Florida to combat diseases mosquito-related diseases. Dermot Martin looks into the facts of...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Developmental Biology, Environment, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Parasitology, Virology, Zoology
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How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk

September 1, 2020
Insight
2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China mutated to allow it to infect humans too. Within 3 months...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharmaceutical
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Big data for understanding small molecules; a case study

August 25, 2020
Feature
As big data continues to transform the industry must we remain so reluctant to share data? In her article; 'Collaborate to accumulate', updated and published in Laboratory News July 2020...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Collaborate to accumulate

August 25, 2020
Feature
Pharmaceutical research and development has historically been shrouded in mystery; a secretive activity conducted behind closed doors to protect commercial advantage. So, as big data continues to transform the industry...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank

August 18, 2020
News
Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply network, creating one of the largest virtual biobanks worldwide accessible to life science innovators.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Covid-19, Cytology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain

August 17, 2020
News
Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014, with an increasing proportion of positive samples found along the wildlife supply...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Parasitology, Virology, Zoology
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Improved cybernetics hardware – human interfacing

August 17, 2020
News
Although true 'cyborgs' -- part human, part robotic beings -- are science fiction, researchers are taking steps toward integrating electronics with the body. Such devices could monitor for tumour development...
Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Engineering, Life Sciences, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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Bringing innate immunity centre stage in COVID-19 combat

August 17, 2020
Insight
A recent Canadian paper [1] has acknowledged that the innate immune system could have a direct effect on the body’s ability to respond to COVID-19, and we must continue to...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Virology
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