Concern at low immunisation rates
A total of 12.9 million children, nearly one in ten, did not receive any vaccinations in 2016, according to the most recent estimations from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF.
According to the organisations,...
XBiotech announces research collaboration
XBiotech’s True Human product IL-1 alpha is to be used in researching treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
US company XBiotech Inc, a developer of True Human(TM) therapeutic antibodies, has started a collaboration designed to...
Grants are awarded
Four teams of scientists at Rice University and other Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC) institutions in America have secured research grants from the John S. Dunn Collaborative Research Awards.
GCC member institutions include Baylor College of...
Zika vaccine trial begins
The first of five early stage clinical trials to test the safety and ability of a Zika vaccine candidate has begun in America.
The Zika Purified Inactivated Virus (ZPIV) vaccine, which is designed to generate...
Research into Parkinson’s Disease turns focus on the gut
Research carried out by a team of American researchers has suggested that gut microbes may play a critical role in the development of Parkinson’s Disease (PD).
The findings could lead to new treatments that can...
Team target resistant infections
Researchers in America have created a new way to identify drugs and drug combinations that may be useful in combating infections that are resistant to many different antibiotics.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health’s...
Research leads to ban
Research carried out by a UK-China collaboration played a key role in the introduction of a ban on the use of the antibiotic colistin as a feed additive for animals in China.
The Chinese Ministry...
Unlocking the secrets of the brain
Scientists in America have more than doubled the number of known regions in the brain’s outer mantle, known as the cortex.
The findings could help add to the understanding of how the regions evolved and...
Sequencing project targets diseases
An exciting new project will see 1,000 people undergo whole genome sequencing and whole transcriptome sequencing using a novel testing platform provided by American company NantHealth.
NantHealth has partnered with the University of Utah in to analyse...
Bioscience sector shows its worth
A new study has shown that employment within the US bioscience industry has increased for the past four years.
The report shows a growth in employment in the sector of nearly 10% since 2001, making...
Scientific team develop new type of rice
A team of Chinese and British researchers have developed a new form of more resilient rice.
Dr Xiaorong Fan and Prof Guohua Xu, from Nanjing Agricultural University, in China, working with Dr Tony Miller, from...
Initiative a success in treating hepatitis B
Research into Africa’s first ‘screen-and-treat’ programme for hepatitis B suggests that the initiative may reduce deadly complications of the virus.
The new findings from researchers at a number of international institutions suggest that the initiative...
Starfish help solve evolutionary puzzle
Biologists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have discovered that the history of a hormone responsible for sexual maturity in humans can be traced to genes of starfish.
Puberty and sexual development in humans...
Research tool will help veterans
Bioscience is being used to help war veterans in America cope with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Cohen Veterans Bioscience, Exaptive Inc. and Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing have announced a new initiative to...
Personalised medicine takes a step closer
Researchers at the University of California (UCLA), in Los Angeles, have taken a big step towards creating drug doses and combinations that are tailored to people’s specific diseases and body chemistry.
The researchers, from the...
Funding allocated to tackle the Zika virus
The Medical Research Council (MRC), the Newton Fund and the Wellcome Trust have joined forces to tackle the global threat posed by the Zika virus.
Their move comes after the Zika Rapid Response Initiative launched...