November 2020

Resources

My Lab: Comprehensive cancer centre

Biomedical Scientist Team Manager Tahmina Hussain gives a guided tour of her laboratory at The Christie Pathology Partnership in Manchester.

Haematology & Transfusion Science

Resources

Here to help: IBMS support hub

Tahmina Hussain and Jocelyn Pryce outline the launch of support resources to help members in these challenging times.

News

November Journal-based learning

Molecular Pathology & Genomics

News

Biomedical Scientist magazine wins award

The Biomedical Scientist magazine was victorious in the highly contested best magazine category at an awards ceremony.

News

New cytology portfolios

Two new cytology portfolios in cervical and diagnostic cytology have been announced.

News

Biomedical scientists honoured

Two biomedical scientists who are IBMS members were acknowledged in the Queen’s Birthday Honours this year:

Microbiology & Virology

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Reviewers for newly formed centre

Health Education England’s (HEE) new Centre for Advancing Practice is inviting biomedical scientists to apply to oversee its accreditation process.

News

Roadmap for early cancer detection

Earlier detection of cancer offers arguably the single biggest opportunity to save lives from the disease, but there are many challenges of seeing this a reality for patients in the NHS.

News

Artifical intelligence and COVID-19

Research shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can be nearly as accurate as a physician in diagnosing COVID-19 in the lungs.

News

"Trust and inequality fuelling COVID-19 spread"

Trust in public institutions is linked to fewer COVID-19 deaths – however, trust and belonging to groups is associated with more deaths.

Microbiology & Virology

News

New biomarker to prevent graft-versus-host disease

A recent report sheds light on immune cell biomarkers that may reveal which patients are most at risk for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).

Immunology