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3 Ingredients for Effective Pharmaceutical Cybersecurity
Added: 26 Aug 2021
The pharmaceutical industry faces growing pressure from cyber threats. Attacks on manufacturers and…
UK launches national antibody surveillance programme
Added: 25 Aug 2021
For the first time, UK Health Security Agency to launch UK-wide antibody surveillance programme for…
Celebrating 50 years with the mother of 'ELISA'
Added: 27 Aug 2021
In an exclusive interview with Dermot Martin, Eva Engvall discusses the invention and evolution of …
Scientists get second opinion from AI on tell-tale heart
Added: 26 Aug 2021
The single biggest global cause of death is heart disease. Changes in the electrical signals associ…
COVID-19 may impact fight-or-flight response in young adults
Added: 9 Aug 2021
New collaborative research using microneurography suggests COVID-19 may alter the fight-or-flight r…
Game Theory: Carbon City Zero (world edition)
Added: 19 Aug 2021
Games are a useful distraction during these times. Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner, take us th…
The one hundredth column from a heart-filled nerd
Added: 20 Aug 2021
Never doing anything by halves and much to the relief of friends, family, and this editor, Russ Swa…
Driving precision medicine into frontline healthcare
Added: 16 Aug 2021
Improved patient safety demands greater specificity to ensure therapeutic efficiency. Here, Tom Ren…
Study debunks myth that carnivores roam wild in absence of humans
Added: 13 Aug 2021
As people sheltered in place at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, sightings of wildlife in urban …
Decades of research brings quantum dots to brink of widespread use
Added: 18 Aug 2021
A new article in Science magazine gives an overview of almost three decades of research into colloi…
Food or sex? Fruit flies give insight into decision-making
Added: 17 Aug 2021
Individuals are likely to prioritise food over sex after being deprived of both, according to resea…
Get ready for Lab Awards 2021
Added: 9 Aug 2021
Brand new in 2021, the Lab Awards will be taking place at the ICC in Birmingham on the evening of N…
Glycoproteomics: a new era in biomarkers
Added: 6 Aug 2021
Klaus Lindpaintner takes us on a journey of discovery, automation and scale-up that has applied AI …
Visitor registration has now opened for CHEMUK 2021
Added: 5 Aug 2021
Visitor registration has now opened for CHEMUK 2021, the UK chemical industries national expo, bein…
All eyes on Lab Innovations 2021
Added: 5 Aug 2021
At Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry, professionals, s…
Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson's disease
Added: 2 Aug 2021
Researchers have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berrie…
Are all mammals just copy cats? Felines to play a key role in human genetics
Added: 30 Jul 2021
The feline genome is ordered similarly to humans according to one veterinary medicine expert. So, c…
Gene variant discovery could help treat Alzheimer's and other degenerative brain disorders
Added: 29 Jul 2021
New research suggests early changes in brain metabolism may explain the neurodegeneration suffered …
The mind-boggling complexity of scientific waste
Added: 30 Jul 2021
Why is scientific waste disposal complicated? Dr Matthew Partridge muses on that gap in student and…
Shipping biologicals - the journey of human tissue samples
Added: 29 Jul 2021
Medical research relies on routine and specialist biological samples which must be handled with gre…
