August 2022

Wastewater disease monitoring

What can we learn from analysing wastewater and what potential roles could the surveillance method play in the future? We look at the issues.

The big question: Should specialist biomedical scientists be redefined?

This month we ask “Should specialist biomedical scientists be redefined?”

Crucial collaboration

Understanding how the health of humans and animals is connected provides vital understanding of viruses. Professor Nicola Lewis, the new Director of the Worldwide Influenza Centre, highlights her priorities in the role.

“Rare cells capable of transforming into blood cancer”

Dysfunction involving an unusual type of thymocyte cell found in small amounts in every person may be the reason why some people develop a form of leukaemia called T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL), it is claimed.

Covid-19 fattens body cells to fuel viral takeover

The virus that causes COVID-19 performs a takeover of the body’s fat-processing system, creating cellular storehouses of fat empowering the virus to hijack the body’s molecular machinery and cause disease.

Tech news: August 2022

This month's top tech news stories

Impacting policy

IBMS Chief Executive David Wells on keeping the profession’s hopes, ideas and concerns at the forefront of the conversation.

The IBMS Strategy: an update

The bold new IBMS Strategy was launched in February this year. It set out our vision, mission and values, the key themes we will be focusing on, and our core aims over the next five years. Here Lynda Rigby, Sue Jones and Sarah May from the IBMS outline the work being undertaken to deliver this new strategy

Introduction to assessment offences

The second instalment of an occasional column by Biomedical Science Programme Leader Dr Lynne Lawrance, aimed at training officers and others supporting students undertaking degrees.

A call to arms: returning to practice in the pandemicA call to arms: returning to practice in the pandemic

Tracey Warnett, Teaching Technical Manager at the University of Bradford, on her experiences of returning to the bench.

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