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Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025

June 25, 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human rights and biomedical technologies. Governance of technologies, equity in health care and physical and...

Webinar: Accepting animal-free bacterial endotoxin testing

June 15, 2020
European, US, Japanese and Chinese pharmacopeia will include a synthetic substitute for horseshoe crab blood in their next revisions, despite some initial concerns from US Pharmacopia experts in May. Lonza...

Dose controlled drug delivery via 3D printed electromagnetic capsule

June 9, 2020
Doctors could soon be administering an entire course of treatment for life-threatening conditions with a 3D printed capsule controlled by magnetic fields thanks to advances made by University of Sussex...

Photoactivated enzymatic oxygen transfer

May 27, 2020
Researchers at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Pavia (Italy) have now identified an enzyme which becomes catalytically active when exposed to blue light and which immediately triggers a reaction...

Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19

April 27, 2020
Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx19 dataset; the first human cellular morphological dataset of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). The human cellular morphological data and over 1,600...

Beyond the code

July 22, 2019
Genomics has been revolutionary – but have we forgotten cell biology in the push for an ever more reductive understanding of health and disease? Professor John S Torday thinks the...

The secret microbiome

May 21, 2019
Auto-immune disease, obesity and even cancer… the microbiome is clearly involved in much of human health. No surprise really, we are as much microbe as we are human. What is...

Making a value judgement

May 7, 2019
Bioethics has become a global endeavour – and a good thing too says Catherine Joynson. As we push the boundaries of what we do with biology, we need to ask...

One at a time

April 29, 2019
Watching biological processes one molecule at a time is an incredibly difficult task… but it is getting easier says Dr Joanna Andrecka, and it could turn drug discovery on its...

An edit for good?

April 9, 2019
Gene editing could allow incredible crop improvements, with the potential to reduce the harmful impact of agrochemicals on biodiversity while boosting yield. However, the recent European Court of Justice ruling...

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