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Fast-tracking nanovaccines to fight coronavirus

September 10, 2020
Insight
Today, there are more than 150 COVID-19 vaccines in the race to mitigate the virus.1-3 Some of these vaccines have already reached Phase III clinical trials in less than a...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Virology
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Reimagining the face mask: a design upgrade

September 4, 2020
News
Imagine a reusable face mask that protects wearers and those around them from SARS-CoV-2, is comfortable enough to wear all day, and stays in place without frequent adjustment. Based on...
Life Sciences, Materials
Biology, Covid-19, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, Life Sciences, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Virology
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Diabetes-in-a-dish model uncovers new insights

September 4, 2020
News
Using cells taken from patients with type 2 diabetes and new techniques to convert them into specialised precursors of muscle cells, researchers have developed a novel 'disease-in-a-dish' model to study...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Proteomics & Genomics
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Ensuring ‘fair and equitable’ distribution of COVID-19 vaccines

September 4, 2020
News
When effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, their supply will inevitably be scarce. The World Health Organization (WHO), global leaders, and vaccine producers are already facing the question of how to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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Submit your COVID-19 data to the global vaccine effort

September 4, 2020
News
More than 73,000 users collaborate on a new online platform set up by the European Open Science Cloud Initiative, where scientists share COVID-19 data and accelerate our understanding of the...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, 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, Pharmacology, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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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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Coronavirus ‘trap and zap’ technology

August 24, 2020
News
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technology to capture and deactivate the virus that causes COVID-19. Image: A schematic of the SARS-CoV-2 viral particle, which...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oceanography
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