JOHNS HOPKINS EXPERTS PUBLISH GUIDEBOOK FOR BLOOD PLASMA THERAPY
A team of Johns Hopkins experts has created a clinical guidebook to help hospitals and medical centers rapidly scale up their ability to deliver so-called convalescent plasma therapy, which leverages immune system components found...
Everyday tablet could lead to relief for cancer sufferers
Another example of immunology at work is new research that suggests that giving cancer patients aspirin at the same time as immunotherapy could dramatically boost the effectiveness of the treatment.
Francis Crick Institute researchers, funded...
NETPark: the hi-tech force for growth in County Durham
NETPark of Durham provides world-class laboratory, clean room and office space to science, technology and engineering companies, ranging from start-ups to global AIM-listed firms.
Managed by Business Durham and backed by on-site strategic partner CPI...
Bioscience companies find The North East Technology Park in County Durham the perfect place...
The North-East Technology Park, or NETPark, provides science, technology and engineering companies with the type of world-class laboratory, clean room and office space that can take businesses from a small start-up to a global AIM listed...
Cell therapy manufacturing –making the future now
There is no mistaking the sure but steady revolution happening in cell therapy. With the long-held promise now rewarded with greater funding, investment and belief, the change in gear has been dizzying.
However, this is...
Cell line technology
By Frances Griss
One of the most exciting and rapidly growing fields of bioscience is the development of new cell lines with specific and controllable characteristics, either for research or industrial scale production.
Companies all over...
Can compliance in pharmaceutical logistics by air be reached through industry collaboration?
Pharmaceuticals makeup 1.9% of all air cargo and generate revenues of $1.4 billion per year - 2.6% of total air cargo. In the next three years (2018-2020), growth in pharmaceuticals being transported by air is...
Helping everyone breathe easier – finding new approaches to treating respiratory disease
Everyone should be able to breathe clean air with healthy lungs, yet sadly far too many people continue to gasp for breath because of lung disease. In the UK, one in five people develop...
Genome editing technology moves forward
Editing the human genomeis a ground-breaking technique which is raising the hopes of millions of people afflicted by inherited disease.
Research has already made significant advances in possible therapies for diseases as diverse as sickle-cell...
Scottish research project secures funding
Exciting work is under way in Scotland where Keisuke Kaji, researcher at the University of Edinburgh’s MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM), has been awarded a £4m Fellowship Award by the Medical Research Council.
The...
Over three million surgical operations and cancer treatments a year in England may become...
New data published by Public Health England (PHE) show that antibiotic resistant bloodstream infections continue to rise in England, with an estimated 35% increase from 2013 to 2017 (from 12,250 in 2013 to...
Making clinical trials right for older people
In this issue, we speak to Miles Witham, Professor of Trials for Older People at Newcastle University and consultant geriatrician, about why he’s bringing about a sea change in how clinical trials involving older...
Taking a global view
Work being done by Romanian and Ukranian scientists in the Danube Delta is helping to drive a research programme that could have global ramifications.
Findings by the Danube Delta Research Institute show that algae bloom...
CRISPR/CAS9: It’s a good time for gene editing – don’t ruin your experiments with...
Biomedical researchers have long sought the “magic wand” for targeted genome editing in an attempt to affect phenotypic outcome. A number of methods allow manipulation of gene function, including viral vectors, homologous recombination, RNAi,...
Bringing patients and providers together one tweet at a time
As an open forum for human interaction, social media have become the great equalizer of health information – providing a means for patients and health care providers to connect outside of the hospital or...
Growing microtumours in a dish hailed as ‘rapid way to identify tumour genes’
Researchers have identified a new way to screen genes that cause several different types of cancers to grow, identifying particularly promising targets for precision oncology in oral and esophageal squamous cancers.
The study, published in...