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Developing the next-generation genomics toolkit
Added: 21 Sep 2020
Bob Daber from Genosity and Michael Wong from EPAM unveil the secrets behind the Integrated Genomic…
Socially distanced lobsters... Covid-19 and the landscape of disgust
Added: 21 Sep 2020
Social distancing is still the main way we have of fending off Covid-19. It has been hard and very …
Improving the luck of the horseshoe crab
Added: 21 Sep 2020
Following some recent media controversy, Allen Burgenson, and Glenn Gauvry update our original July…
Single-step 3D printing multimaterial microstructures
Added: 17 Sep 2020
Researchers have developed an automated 3D printing method that can produce multicolour 3D microstr…
Fast-tracking nanovaccines to fight coronavirus
Added: 10 Sep 2020
Today, there are more than 150 COVID-19 vaccines in the race to mitigate the virus.1-3 Some of thes…
Unravelling what makes memories so detailed and enduring
Added: 14 Sep 2020
In years to come, our personal memories of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be etched in our min…
Plant-based supercapacitor delivers 900 x energy efficiency
Added: 11 Sep 2020
In a new study, researchers at Texas A&M University have described their novel plant-based energy s…
Fungus leather: new front-runner for sustainable clothing material
Added: 9 Sep 2020
In a new review paper by the University of Vienna, Imperial College London, and RMIT University in …
Laboratory News Podcast - Rhythmical rats and scientific gin
Added: 7 Sep 2020
Its only a bloomin' party episode! And what makes a party really tick? Why music and alcohol of cou…
Reimagining the face mask: a design upgrade
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Imagine a reusable face mask that protects wearers and those around them from SARS-CoV-2, is comfor…
Ensuring 'fair and equitable' distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
Added: 4 Sep 2020
When effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, their supply will inevitably be scarce. The World H…
Submit your COVID-19 data to the global vaccine effort
Added: 4 Sep 2020
More than 73,000 users collaborate on a new online platform set up by the European Open Science Clo…
Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar
Added: 1 Sep 2020
An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoe…
How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk
Added: 1 Sep 2020
2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China…
Collaborate to accumulate
Added: 25 Aug 2020
Pharmaceutical research and development has historically been shrouded in mystery; a secretive acti…
Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank
Added: 18 Aug 2020
Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply net…
Physics at home and making medicine from hibernating animals
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Something of a double-header for you in this episode. I spoke to a physicist who managed to create …
Can efficiency and sustainability coexist?
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Allison Paradise, CEO of My Green lab, a non-profit organization and Marc Boreham vice president an…
Bringing innate immunity centre stage in COVID-19 combat
Added: 17 Aug 2020
A recent Canadian paper [1] has acknowledged that the innate immune system could have a direct effe…
Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014,…
