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Biohybrid organic battery combines nanocomposite and bacteria
Added: 27 May 2020
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a programmable, biohybrid ma…

What’s your poison?
Sarah Lawton | Added: 11 May 2020
Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-mast…

Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 has not mutated
Added: 6 May 2020
Analysis work from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research provides evidence that S…

Activation of the SARS coronavirus 2 revealed
Added: 6 May 2020
The Infection Biology Unit of the German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Resea…

Cyber warning issued for key healthcare organisations
Added: 6 May 2020
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a cyber security warning to healthcare organis…

Real-time observation of enzymatic processes on DNA
Added: 4 May 2020
Scientists at the University of Konstanz have used infrared spectroscopy to visualise the biochemic…

A question of reagents
Sarah Lawton | Added: 1 May 2020
At the time of writing, more than 1.3M people have been infected and more than 72,600 deaths have b…

Novel potential Covid-19 treatments discovered
Added: 30 Apr 2020
A UK-based biotechnology firm has announced the discovery of two separate novel treatments for Covi…
Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19
Added: 28 Apr 2020
Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx1…

Good science communication is vital
Added: 28 Apr 2020
There is no more important time to get science communication right than during a pandemic. But, say…

Going round in circles
Added: 9 Apr 2020
Single use plastics are a staple in the lab – but they are also are part of the plastics pollution …

Antibody from SARS epidemic reacts with Coronavirus
Added: 9 Apr 2020
An antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s has revealed a potent…

We need to talk about live wet-markets
Added: 6 Apr 2020
How do we make sure this doesn’t happen ever again? How do we reduce novel zoonotics in our species…

Coronavirus – is it just “a type of ‘flu”?
Added: 2 Apr 2020
The virology, genomics, epidemiology and medical response – Chief Virology Examiner at the Institut…

WIN: Visions of Science
Added: 2 Apr 2020
Produced by the Art in Research gallery – the first art gallery dedicated to scientific photography…

Small plankton bad for carbon sequestration
Added: 2 Apr 2020
A study of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic suggest their cells are smaller than expected – m…

Seed funding for oncology drug developer
Added: 24 Mar 2020
A biotechnology company focused on the treatment of cancer has announced an additional £1 million s…

Medtech funding for implant company
Added: 24 Mar 2020
A Newcastle medtech company has secured nearly £250,000 in funding from Innovate UK to further its …

Shining a light on diabetes
Added: 17 Mar 2020
The complexity of glycogen storage diseases like diabetes means a reductionist approach just won’t …

Does gene therapy put safety second?
Added: 15 Mar 2020
The delivery of gene therapies relies almost entirely on viral vectors. So, when it comes to the pr…