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All eyes on Lab Innovations 2021

August 5, 2021
News
At Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry, professionals, scientists, researchers and more will come together and do business for the first time in 2021. On...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson’s disease

August 2, 2021
News
Researchers have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berries and other fruits, prevents and reverses brain damage linked to Parkinson's disease in mouse studies....
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Proteomics & Genomics
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Are all mammals just copy cats? Felines to play a key role in human genetics

July 30, 2021
News
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...
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Proteomics & Genomics, Zoology
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The mind-boggling complexity of scientific waste

July 30, 2021
Insight
Why is scientific waste disposal complicated? Dr Matthew Partridge muses on that gap in student and researcher health and safety training, investigates documentation, and considers how we all might remember...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Gene variant discovery could help treat Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain disorders

July 29, 2021
News
New research suggests early changes in brain metabolism may explain the neurodegeneration suffered by Alzheimer's patients. Discovery of a special gene variant, that causes astrocytes of the brain and exhausts...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Proteomics & Genomics
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Shipping biologicals – the journey of human tissue samples

July 29, 2021
Feature
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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Cytology, Haematology, Health, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Pathology, Pharmacology, Virology, Zoology
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One drug to treat them all: towards a ‘master’ coronavirus treatment

July 22, 2021
News
Researchers seek and find that precious drug-binding pocket that is so essential to the coronavirus protein function that it cannot be mutated, and therefore remains accessible across all strains. Using...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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Wearable brain-machine interface turns intentions into actions

July 22, 2021
News
A new wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system could improve the quality of life for people with motor dysfunction or paralysis, even those struggling with locked-in syndrome - when a person...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biotech, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Engineering, Medical/Health, Physics
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New report recommends antibody testing within the Covid-19 vaccination programme

July 8, 2021
News
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...
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Policy, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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Breakthrough for tracking RNA with fluorescence

July 7, 2021
News
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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
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
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