All Covid-19

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…

Certified 3D printed face shields for NHS
Added: 30 Apr 2020
Engineers at the University of Nottingham have designed a PPE face shield with CE approval that the…

Going (anti)viral
Added: 28 Apr 2020
Dermot Martin catches us up with the rapid reaction of the biopharma community to meet the Covid-19…

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…

BIA #TestingMethods2020 Update
Added: 28 Apr 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine trials start in the UK, testing scales up and knowledge economy support package va…
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…

New collaboration to drive understanding of COVID-19
Added: 27 Apr 2020
A new collaboration between Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins will work to…

UK Companies Tackle the Challenge of Large Scale Covid-19 Testing
Added: 16 Apr 2020
Ziath Ltd is preparing for rapid production of its tube readers to support the effort for greater C…

CERN takes on Covid-19
Added: 9 Apr 2020
The World’s biggest experiment, CERN, has established a task force to identify and support contribu…

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…

Consortium to develop COVID-19 vaccine
Added: 2 Apr 2020
University of Oxford researchers working in an unprecedented vaccine development effort to prevent …

Investment to map COVID-19
Added: 24 Mar 2020
The government have announced a £20 million investment to map how COVID-19 spreads and behaves by u…

Team release coronavirus inhibition results
Added: 10 Mar 2020
A team using computer-aided methods to identify possible new drugs to combat the current coronaviru…

Enemy at the gates
Added: 4 Mar 2020
As coronavirus continues to spread around the globe and vaccine hesitancy threatens the return of l…

If we're going to get it anyway, is it better to get it over with?
Added: 28 Feb 2020
As efforts redouble to contain and control, Russ Swan wonders if it is way too late to do anything …

Free information centre for coronavirus
Added: 29 Jan 2020
Elsevier has created a free information centre on the coronavirus currently causing respiratory dis…