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Ensuring quality through accreditation in our Lighthouse Labs: IBMS response to BBC Panorama
Added: 31 Mar 2021
Following the BBC Panorama’s undercover investigation into a COVID-19 lighthouse laboratory, the In…
Bioluminescence: a life study of ocean light
Added: 30 Mar 2021
Bioluminescence is visually magical and has inspired many scientists to dive deep to discover its s…
Don't Panic! You have not been infected with SARS-CoV-2: Understanding COVID vaccine side-effects
Added: 29 Mar 2021
COVID-19 vaccines are not capable of infecting anyone with SARS-CoV-2. Although a fraction of peopl…
COVID waste is killing animals - how to pick COVID PPE litter safely
Added: 26 Mar 2021
How many times have you stepped over someone else's lost or discarded facemask crushed in the dirt …
Machine learning plus vital signs provides objective patient pain levels
Added: 18 Mar 2021
Describing pain from zero to ten is currently as good as it gets on the hospital floor when it come…
Microbial lipoxygenases: a next target against antibiotic resistance?
Added: 15 Mar 2021
Russian researchers Georgy Kurakin, Anna Samoukina and Nadezhda Potapova use bioinformatics to unco…
Tracking mosquito flight patterns in 3D using digital holography and mathematics
Added: 12 Mar 2021
Researchers have been asked to use large field-of-view digital holography to accurately apply 3D tr…
Bringing DNA sequencing to the frontlines in the fight against anti-microbial resistance
Added: 10 Mar 2021
The future may see DNA sequencing as a routine bacterial diagnostic technique in hospitals and clin…
Laboratory Management: Monitoring the cold chain
Added: 5 Mar 2021
With many COVID vaccines relying on ultra-low temperature storage, Matt Feeny explains why and how …
Resistance is rarely futile - reinvigorating the AMR ecosystem
Added: 5 Mar 2021
Might we defeat our oldest enemy in fighting one of the newest? Peter Jackson looks at how lessons …
Towards 'Zero Leprosy' - model shows 40 million people need preventive treatment
Added: 5 Mar 2021
As the world considers strategies towards 'Zero COVID', research specialists also continue to work …
Unleashing the power of digital image analysis
Added: 1 Mar 2021
The practice of image analysis has been evolving for years, but the UK’s lockdown has hit fast-forw…
Disease Y - Prevention is cheaper than cure
Added: 26 Feb 2021
At an estimated cost of $15 trillion, the financial impact of the current pandemic has rocked the g…
Ultra-high definition predictive brain tool to guide surgery in drug-resistant epilepsy patients
Added: 25 Feb 2021
A third of epilepsy cases are drug resistant and removal of the area of the brain where seizures em…
Excellent standards drive commercial demand in bioproduction
Added: 22 Feb 2021
Protein biochemist, Dr Bernd Gerhartz, tells the story of how he and his team established a new str…
4 ways technology is improving the healthcare supply chain
Added: 19 Feb 2021
During the past year, the healthcare supply chain has been pushed to the limits. Shortages in suppl…
“Let’s not wait another 100 years to collaborate” appeals President of The Pistoia Alliance
Added: 16 Feb 2021
The breakthroughs in vaccine development that have been achieved in just ten months clearly demonst…
Robotic system outSTRIPs all previous COVID testing systems
Added: 9 Feb 2021
A live laboratory setup in the Netherlands demonstrates that five robots could accurately process a…
We can be Zero! Time for a strategic change to combat virus variants?
Added: 8 Feb 2021
As we emerge from the devasting second wave of the virus, there is a growing feeling among some vir…
Cell shape influences antibiotic resistance
Added: 3 Feb 2021
A broad, curvy shape has a lower surface-to-volume ratio and is less susceptible to surface invasio…
