Treading the path less travelled – A different approach to patient recruitment
In a previous issue, we spoke to Professor Miles Witham about his work to facilitate the participation of older people in clinical trials. Now we hear from Sarah Montague about a trial engaging homeless...
A golden era for blood cancer treatments
It’s an exciting time in blood cancer research. As we deepen our understanding of the biology of blood cancer, researchers are developing better treatments than ever before, and we’re even beginning to talk about...
Covid-19 transmission chains in the UK traced through time and space with remarkable accuracy...
A team of scientists, led by researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, has analysed the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK and produced the most fine-scaled and comprehensive genomic...
New ‘gene therapy factory’ opens
A new Clinical Biotechnology Centre (CBC) has opened in Bristol to expand the UK’s ability to develop and manufacture new gene and cell therapies.
The Centre will make products for the development of potentially curative...
A global surveillance model is vital for future pandemic prevention
Broad viral surveillance is essential in pandemic prevention to allow for detection of potential threats and the immediate early launch of health protocols against pathogens. Yves Dubaquie, senior vice president of diagnostics, PerkinElmer, Inc.,...
TEAM TASKED WITH GIVING US FIVE EXTRA YEARS OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
The National Innovation Centre for Ageing is based in The Catalyst, the stunning new building with a glass façade rearing like a horse’s head out of the 24-acre, £350m science park that is the...
Synthetic mouse embryo models created from stem cells
An egg meets a sperm -- the necessary first step for life and a common first step in embryonic development research. But now researchers have grown synthetic embryo models of mice outside the womb...