November 2021

Science

June Almeida: virus imaging pioneer

Beginning her career as a junior hospital technician, Dr June Almeida completed it as a world-renowned virologist whose techniques revolutionised diagnostic electron microscopy. She was also the first person to see a human coronavirus. Here we look back over her life.

Microbiology & Virology
Science

Accreditation agility

Ben Courtney, the Healthcare Section Head at UKAS, outlines the service’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Science

Shining a light ...on lighthouse laboratories

We look back over the history of the lighthouse labs and whether better quality control and tighter regulation are needed.

Molecular Pathology & Genomics
Science

Building confidence in LFDs

New research has used a mathematical formula to clarify how lateral flow devices are more effective than sometimes portrayed. Professor Iain Buchan, Executive Dean of Liverpool’s Institute of Population Health, explains the findings.

Resources

The big question: Better recognition

This month, we ask: “How can biomedical scientists get better recognition for what they contribute to healthcare?”

News

Tech news: November

This month's top tech news stories

Microbiology & Virology
News

Blood marker for peripheral artery disease

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have shown that high levels of a specific protein circulating in the blood are an accurate marker for a severe type of peripheral artery disease that narrows the arteries in the legs and can raise the risk of heart attack.

Haematology & Transfusion Science
Resources

An immersive experience: cancer exhibition at the Crick

The Francis Crick Institute has opened Outwitting Cancer – Making Sense of Nature’s Enigma, an immersive exhibition and the first to take place within a working science laboratory, home to cancer scientists from across the world. Here, Exhibitions Manager Hana Dethlefsen talks through the launch.

Molecular Pathology & Genomics
News

Immunity after Covid

There has been uncertainty about how long immunity lasts after someone who is unvaccinated is infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Microbiology & Virology
News

Carbon dioxide monitors to track Covid-19 risk

Scientists have developed a way of using carbon dioxide monitors to help estimate the risk of catching COVID-19 and other airborne diseases in near-real time.

News

Trial campaign to reduce opioids "is effective"

A campaign that urged GPs to “think twice” before putting a patient on opioid medicines is effective in reducing opioid prescribing in primary care, according to a major study.

Immunology
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