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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.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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A counterintuitive approach to treating Covid-19

May 3, 2020
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Health, Medical/Health, Virology
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Going (anti)viral

April 27, 2020
Feature
Dermot Martin catches us up with the rapid reaction of the biopharma community to meet the Covid-19 antiviral quest
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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A very positive destruction

December 2, 2019
Feature
Totally eradicating disease is a very rare thing indeed and requires, among other things, global cooperation and technical excellence. Here we learn that keeping one of the most catastrophic diseases...
Life Sciences
Biology, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Medical/Health, Policy, Virology
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Procarta awarded £7.4M for microbial treatment

September 23, 2019
News
Biotechnology company Procarta Biosystems will receive up to £7.4 million to develop a new class of antibiotics in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Health/Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy, Virology
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Going viral

August 28, 2019
Insight
Foodborne viruses present a major challenge to the safety of a range of foods including ready–to–eat products, fresh produce and pork products. While viruses cannot grow in or on foods,...
Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Parasitology, Policy, Virology
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Ebola patients cured with mAb drugs

August 13, 2019
News
Two monoclonal antibody drugs will be used to treat Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following a successful nine-month trial.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Cytology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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Game Theory: Linkage

August 5, 2019
Insight
Games have never been more popular and in their column the newest recruits to the Lab News team, Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner, take us through a science...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Chemical Engineering, Comment And Analysis, Cytology, Engineering, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Pathology, Pharmaceutical, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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HIV virus eliminated with CRISPR and new antiretroviral therapy

July 4, 2019
News
Replication-competent HIV-1 DNA – the virus responsible for AIDS – has been eliminated from the genomes of living animals for the first time.
Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Virology
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Protein key to malaria parasite’s lifecycle

October 26, 2018
News
New research suggests that a regulator protein, AP2-G, may hold the key to finding new approaches to prevent malaria.The team behind the work, from the University of Glasgow and the...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Virology
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