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Cancer researchers fear advances for patients could be delayed by almost a year and a half because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey reveals. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, told the survey that their own research advances would be pushed back by an average of six months by […]

One Nucleus has revealed the finalists of its annual BioNewsRound Award, recognising life science companies with exciting developments. The finalists will pitch in the lead up to Genesis 2020 during which the winner will be announced. Companies and research organisations were nominated for their most important updates from the last year. These were assessed based […]

A £1.5 million research programme that aims to achieve scar free healing within a generation has been launched by The Scar Free Foundation, the medical research charity which focuses solely on scarring. The five-year research study led by the University of Bristol will identify the gene(s) that causes scarring and inform future treatments. Scarring affects […]

Most media and public attention during the pandemic has focused upon efforts to develop an effective vaccine to prevent COVID-19, which is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Some attention has been paid to investigational therapeutics for treating infected patients, such as the antiviral drug remdesivir or the corticosteroid dexamethasone, both of which may reduce […]

A computational model of a human lung cell has been used to understand how SARS-CoV-2 draws on human host cell metabolism to reproduce by researchers at the University of Warwick, UK. This study helps understand how the virus uses the host to survive and enable drug predictions for treating the virus to be made. Viruses […]

A new therapy for influenza virus infections that may also prove effective against many other pathogenic virus infections, including HIV and COVID-19, has been developed by Purdue University scientists. In an average year, more than 2 million people in the United States are hospitalised with the flu, and 30,000 to 80,000 of them die from […]

Biosero and TetraScience have revealed that they will integrate data glyphs, instruments and robotic sensors with the cloud-native Tetra Data Platform using Green Button Go Automation Scheduling Software. Together the systems will automatically collect, store and harmonize life science R&D data in the cloud to accelerate drug discovery and research. This collaboration allows the Tetra […]

Creoptix, an expert in next-generation bioanalytical instrumentation has signed an agreement with Oneservice, a global provider of specialty technical services, to offer after-sales support and services for its ground-breaking WAVEsystem in Europe and the US. Creoptix’ WAVEsystem is a label-free biosensor used in life sciences research to study molecular interactions in real-time. Based on proprietary […]

FairJourney Biologics and IONTAS have signed an agreement to discover antibodies with Pandion Therapeutics (Pandion). The partnership will harness both FJB and IONTAS’ proprietary antibody libraries and technology platforms to investigate novel therapeutic targets for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Pandion focuses on the development of innovative modular therapeutics using its TALON (Therapeutic Autoimmune reguLatOry proteiN) […]

The efficacy of the Sputnik V vaccine is 91.4%, based on the second interim analysis of data obtained 28 days after administering the first dose (seven days after the second dose), according to the Gamaleya Center and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). The calculation was based on the analysis of data on volunteers (18,794) […]