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Diabetes-in-a-dish model uncovers new insights

September 4, 2020
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...

Ensuring ‘fair and equitable’ distribution of COVID-19 vaccines

September 4, 2020
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...

How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk

September 1, 2020
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...

Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank

August 18, 2020
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.

Can efficiency and sustainability coexist?

August 17, 2020
Allison Paradise, CEO of My Green lab, a non-profit organization and Marc Boreham vice president and general manager of Agilent's Laboratory Enterprise Solutions Division share their views on the interplay...

Medical cannabis growth could offer boom for lab industry

August 12, 2020
Further easing of import restrictions by the Government will provide faster access to patients prescribed cannabis-based medicines — and is the removal of yet another barrier in a market expected...

COVID-19 testing will be standard for clinical trials

August 7, 2020
Clinical trial specialist, Bärbel Wilke expects corona testing for both virus and antibody detection to become standard for the recruitment and continued participation of patients in clinical trials. Catherine Featherston...

Hydrogel paves way for biomedical breakthrough

August 4, 2020
A University of Sydney team of biomedical engineers has developed a plasma technology to robustly attach hydrogels ­­– a jelly-like substance which is structurally similar to soft tissue in the...

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