May 2020

News

More effective stem cell transplant

Scientists have developed a new way to make blood stem cells present in the umbilical cord “more transplantable”.

News

"AI research could pose risk for patients"

Many studies claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) is as good as, or better than, human experts at interpreting medical images are of poor quality and potentially exaggerated.

Histopathology

News

"Disasters lead to reductions in cancer screening"

Cervical cancer screening rates in Japan were significantly affected in the years following the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

Cytopathology

Science

COVID-19: a report from Malaysia and Singapore

Professor Anthony Rhodes and Dr Chooi Ling Lim discuss the COVID-19 spread and attempts to control the disease in Southeast Asia.

Microbiology & Virology

Science

The Great Pestilence

The Black Death was the first great pandemic to devastate these shores and, unlike COVID-19, there was a special horror in the fact no-one knew what it was, states writer Jonathan Lovett.

Microbiology & Virology

Science

COVID-19 statistics: an educated guess?

Adrian Esterman, Chair of Biostatistics at the University of South Australia’s Cancer Research Institute, asks: “Can we believe the statistics about COVID-19?”

Microbiology & Virology

Resources

Here to help: Virtual verification

IBMS Deputy Head of Education Jocelyn Pryce explains the new verification process and the impact that it had in just a few weeks.

Resources

The IBMS has created an area in the resources section of its website that houses all materials and information relating to COVID-19. It includes guidance, formal statements and discipline-specific content.

Microbiology & Virology

Science

In search of a vaccine

We look at the frontline of vaccine development and how and when immunity to COVID-19 may be a possibility.

Immunology

Science

Morphology: is the future digital?

Biomedical Scientist Team Manager Tahmina Hussain puts a new automated digital analyser to the test.

Histopathology

Science

The cancer test of the future?

The efforts of cancer research scientists around the world continue to throw up new possibilities that could give clinicians the edge in the fight against the disease. The latest is a blood test that, it is claimed, may be able to detect more than 50 different types of cancer.

Clinical Chemistry