Virology - Laboratory News

The UK is at the forefront of international efforts to research and develop a COVID-19 vaccine and has provided £131 million funding to University of Oxford and Imperial College London...

Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology

UK-based in-depth study of early COVID-19 detection

July 24, 2020

UK digital health and therapeutics company Huma is teaming up with the renowned Fenland Study research team at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge to begin...

Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Virology

Study delivers animal replacement method for vaccine testing

July 23, 2020

Dutch, Bilthoven based, Intravacc, a global leader intranslational research and development of viral and bacterial vaccines, today announced the publication of a study in Scientific Reports on alternatives to the...

Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Policy, Virology

First US-statewide COVID-19 random sample study findings published

July 23, 2020

The results of the first statewide random sample study in the United States to measure the spread of COVID-19 indicated a general population prevalence of about 2.8 percent in Indiana....

Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Virology

Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus

July 23, 2020

Airborne and potentially deadly, the virus that causes COVID-19 can only be studied safely under high-level biosafety conditions. Scientists handling the infectious virus must wear full-body biohazard suits with pressurised...

Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Virology

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...

Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces

June 11, 2020

Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences

One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the disease remains alive after someone infected with it coughs or sneezes. Once the droplets...

Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Medical/Health, Virology

Widespread facemask use could shrink the ‘R’ number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave

June 10, 2020

Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevents further waves of the virus when combined with lockdowns, a modelling study from the universities of Cambridge...

Biology, Covid-19, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Policy, Virology

What’s your poison?

May 10, 2020

Feature

Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-master Steve Trim explains how evolution can give us a Pharmaceutical short-cut.

Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology

A counterintuitive approach to treating Covid-19

May 3, 2020

A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body's immune system during the early stages of COVID-19 could help a patient avoid severe symptoms. Research, published online in the...