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UK standards for microbiology investigations

Chris Ward, IBMS Head of Examinations, and Ruhi Siddiqui, Head of the Standards Unit at the UK Health Security Agency, with the latest updates.

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How do viruses jump between hosts?

Cedric Tan, a computational biologist specialising in microbial (meta)genomics, discusses his recent viral genomes study.

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Tech round up

Best new tech this month

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AI can detect COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images

Artificial intelligence can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images, much like facial recognition software can spot a face in a crowd, new research shows.

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News in brief: May 2024

This month's top news in brief stories

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Equity, diversity and inclusion for all

Jemma Shead, a Senior Biomedical Scientist at Synnovis and IBMS EDI Working Group member, on how and why you should get involved with EDI.

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Examining the medical mystery of child hepatitis outbreak

A study has shed light on an unexpected wave of severe acute hepatitis cases in 2022, amid the backdrop of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic.

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“Monkeypox virus evolving due to human transmission”

A new analysis shows the monkeypox virus (MPXV) is rapidly diverging into several lineages characterised by mutations resulting from continued interaction with the human immune system, suggesting that the virus has been circulating in humans since 2016.

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Self-sampling for asymptomatic mpox

A pilot study carried out in Catalonia to evaluate the self-collection of biological samples reveals the high acceptability of the proposal and the key role of diagnosis in people without symptoms of mpox.

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The contribution of viral pathogens to sepsis

SARS-CoV-2 accounted for one in six cases of sepsis during the first 33 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the importance of viral sepsis, according to a new study.

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Congress 2023: the biggest, best ever

After four days, 19 lecture streams, hundreds of speakers and 5000 delegates passing through the doors of Birmingham’s International Convention Centre, IBMS Congress 2023 came to a close. Here we look back at a selection of the sessions and activities at this year’s event, which had the theme “Linking learning to the laboratory”.

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