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“It’s about being ‘about right’ now, rather than perfectly right too late”
Dr Adam Kucharski, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, tells Tom Ireland how modelling has provided rapid insights into many aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak. Can you give us an idea of what your research involved before the...
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“The mobilization of our country’s scientists has been impressive”
Professor Sophien Kamoun, group leader at the Sainsbury Laboratory, discusses how he and his colleagues have pivoted from studying plant pathogens to tracing a human pathogen at the heart of a global emergency, and how scientists unable to access wet...
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"It's almost like 'crowd-science' - which can really accelerate science"
Open Cell’s Thomas Meany on scaling up open-source COVID-19 testing assays – from a lab in a shipping-container to a dedicated space in The British Library. In 2018 Open Cell began transforming empty shipping containers in Shepherd’s Bush, West London,...
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"We we are calling for donors that never tested positive for SARS-CoV-2"
Immunoengineer Kaitlyn Sadtler is studying the immune response of those with little or no COVID-19 symptoms in the hope of understanding their role in the spread of the disease. Photo courtesy of NIH/NIBIB How has your role changed since the COVID-19...
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“Our entire way of working has changed”
Immunologists Dr Elizabeth Mann (left) and Dr Madhvi Menon (right) are on the frontline of COVID-19 research, following the immune responses of patients arriving at hospitals across Manchester. Can you describe what your role involved before the...
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#BlackBirdersWeek: a movement for black naturalists and scientists in the outdoors
Rhiannon Kirton explains the isolating experience of being black and working in the natural sciences, and how she hopes momentum from a new online campaign can create positive change Last month, after video emerged of a white woman in Central Park...
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Waste opportunity
Could metalotollerant bacteria help produce valuable metal nanoparticles from the world’s spent batteries? Giovanni Maddalena, Professor Louise Horsfall FRSB and Dr Virginia Echavarri-Bravo explain 28th September 2020 Lithium-ion batteries power our...
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Lessons from animal coronaviruses
In veterinary medicine, vaccines have been successfully deployed to fight coronaviruses in pets and livestock for many years. Dr Michael James Francis explores what these vaccines can tell us about the likely success of a COVID-19 vaccination programme...
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Beating animal coronaviruses
In veterinary medicine, vaccines have been successfully deployed to fight coronaviruses in pets and livestock for many years. Dr Michael James Francis explores what these vaccines can tell us about the likely success of a COVID-19 vaccination programme...
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Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year 2021 shortlist announced
The Royal Society of Biology is pleased to announce the shortlist for the Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year award for 2021. The award seeks to identify the country’s leading bioscience teachers in higher education. Recognising outstanding...
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“We mustn’t spend a long time with a lot of virus circulating among a partially vaccinated population”
Above: Molecular epidemiologist Emma Hodcroft. Image by Oliver Hochstrasser. The pandemic is entering a ‘danger period’ where increasing but not total immunity encourages the spread of variants that can reinfect people or evade vaccines, Emma Hodcroft...
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‘I’m ridiculously positive about the media’s coverage of COVID-19’
Scientific reporting has come a long way since the days of 'frankenfoods' and vaccine scare stories, says Fiona Fox, head of the Science Media Centre. February 2nd 2021 Interview by Tom Ireland The Science Media Centre (SMC) was formed in 2002 after a...
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“This research has been in a deep freeze for decades”
Imran Khan talks to Tom Ireland about how psychedelic drugs can help us better understand mental health and consciousness – but only if the way we view and regulate these drugs changes. 12th December 2022 Pre-pandemic, Imran Khan was best known for his...
