November 2017

My lab: Heart and lung transplant

Specialist Transfusion Practitioner Michaela Lewin gives a guided tour of her lab at the cardiothoracic hospital in Papworth.

Here to help: Trainee and trainer

Jocelyn Pryce, IBMS Head of Registration and Training, discusses the importance of relationships in training.

Journal Based Learning for November

Each article’s contents should be read, researched and understood, and you should then come to a decision on each question. The pass mark is 17 out of 20 questions answered correctly. JBL exercises may be completed at any time until the published deadline date. Please select your choice of correct answers and complete the exercises online at: www.ibms.org/cpd/jbl

President's Prize winners

President’s prizes Continuing the coverage of winners from around the country

IBMS sponsors award

The IBMS has sponsored an award in the 2018 Advancing Healthcare Awards (AHA).

IBMS Fellow scoops award

Adeboye Ifederu, an IBMS Fellow, has won a Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) staff award.

Obituary: Walter Sharp

It is with regret that we announce the death of Walter Sharp, following a brief illness.

Human embryo development

Researchers have used genome-editing technology to reveal the role of a key gene in human embryos
in the first few days of development.

The NHS £1bn maintenance bill

A new report shows that the cost of urgent repairs required to NHS hospitals is nearly £1bn.

How blood cancer "recharges"

A new study has uncovered how blood cancer “steals” parts of surrounding healthy bone marrow cells in order to thrive.

Nobel for imaging molecules

The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for improving images made of biological molecules.

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