Focus on Alzheimer’s disease – Hope on the horizon
Dr David Reynolds
Chief Scientific Officer at Alzheimer’s Research UK
Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity and is dedicated to funding pioneering research to find ways to understand, diagnose, reduce risk and...
Regulator protein key to malaria parasite’s lifecycle
Malaria remains a significant threat to human health with approximately 216 million cases annually and over 400,000 deaths worldwide. It is caused by the Plasmodium parasite, which has a complex lifecycle involving transmission to...
Will 2020 be the Year You Make the Most of Innovation Tax Reliefs
It’s the start of a new decade and with that comes the chance to have a fresh look at everything that is happening in your business.
It is likely to be the most active decade...
Unlocking the secret strength of marine mussels
Discovery may lead to medical advances in bio-implants, wearable sensors, & more.
How do you create strong, yet quick-release connections between living and non-living tissues? This is a question that continues to puzzle bioengineers who...
Velvet Worm slime could inspire sustainable synthetic materials
Fibers produced from the slime exhibit a strength akin to nylon, yet they can dissolve in water and be reconstituted into new fibers.
n the tropical, temperate forests it calls home, the velvet worm uses...
Striving to improve rates of reproducibility
Experts in biological sample storage and logistics management, CRYONISS offers a comprehensive storage service at ambient, +4°C, -20°C and -80°C, as well as vapour phase liquid nitrogen.
The Cheshire-based Cryoniss team has a wealth of...
Biopharmaceutical sector on the up
The global biopharmaceutical manufacturing sector is continuing to grow at a rapid rate, according to a new report into its performance.
According to the report by market researchers IMARC Group, the key drivers are the...
Crime Scene – International efforts target improvements in food safety
Food safety has never been higher on the international agenda as understanding the impact of what we eat on our health becomes ever more important.
As debates rage about the potential damage caused by the...
World-first test for new heart attack drug
The partnership between the University of Birmingham and Acticor Biotech will see patients with heart attacks treated with glenzocimab, a promising new class of drug, for the first time.
A potential new drug to improve...
COVID-19 deaths among elderly may be due to genetic limit on cell division
Your immune system’s ability to combat COVID-19, like any infection, largely depends on its ability to replicate the immune cells effective at destroying the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease. These cloned immune cells...
The battle against polio – still work to be done
People of a certain age in the Western World will have haunting recollections of a disease that laid waste to vast numbers of young people. A cruel disease that filled sanitoriums with rows of...
Hope as research unlocks the secrets of heart disease
By Frances Griss
Since the beginning of the 1960s, deaths from heart disease in the UK have halved so that today only 26% of people have a cause of death attributable to the condition, compared with...
EXPERT EQUIPS ENTREPRENEURS TO SURVIVE ADVERSITY
Expert in the field of biological sample storage and logistics management, CRYONISS is also adept at evaluating business continuity plans and identifying the holes that might well prove to be their pitfall.
Cheshire-based Cryoniss offers...
Unprecedented exploration generates most comprehensive map of cancer genomes to date
An international team has completed the most comprehensive study of whole cancer genomes to date, significantly improving our fundamental understanding of cancer and signposting new directions for its diagnosis and treatment.
Published in Nature, more...
Biological engineers discover new antibiotic candidates
The human body produces many antimicrobial peptides that help the immune system fend off infection. Scientists hoping to harness these peptides as potential antibiotics have now discovered that other peptides in the human body...
Testo Saveris 2: Temperature and humidity monitoring re-invented.
Thanks to Testo, temperature and humidity monitoring has been simplified.
Monitoring temperature and humidity is important where incorrect climatic conditions can have drastic consequences; too low a temperature in pharmacy refrigerators can negatively influence the...