October 2021

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Working flexibly across sites

Specialist Biomedical Scientist Kimberly C Lewis gives a guided tour of the clinical biochemistry facilities at Swansea.

Haematology & Transfusion Science
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Here to help: It helps to help each other

IBMS Education Manager Richardia Penn with the latest on assessment, verification and training.

Resources

A very powerful congress

IBMS Deputy Chief Executive Sarah May gives a Congress 2022 update, including new content, more content plus a last chance to catch the early booking rate.

Science

The support hub

Jocelyn Pryce, Tahmina Hussain and Mike Carter give an update on professional growth, training and development.

Science

IBMS grants research roundup

Cecilia Grimaldi talks to three previous recipients of IBMS research grants to hear about their projects, how the funding has supported their research, and what they plan to do next.

Microbiology & Virology
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Medical eponyms pt 6: Duchenne muscular dystrophy

This is the sixth in a series of short biographies of persons whose names are directly used for diseases, conditions or syndromes familiar to those in clinical pathology laboratories.

Microbiology & Virology
Science

The British Journal of Biomedical Science: Issue 4, 2021, synopsis

Editor Anthony Rhodes provides a brief glimpse of the articles on offer in the fourth issue of 2021.

Histopathology
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How long to recover from deficient sleep?

After seven days of recovery from a 10-day period of deficient sleep, participants in a small study had fully recovered their pre-sleep deprivation reaction speed, but not any other measures of function.

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Under the microscope: chronic allograft dysfunction

What is chronic allograft dysfunction (CLAD)?

A range of pathologies that cause a transplanted lung to not achieve or maintain normal function. CLAD manifests as airflow restriction or obstruction.

Molecular Pathology & Genomics
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Evolutionary changes in brain development

More than 3000 regions in the human genome are very different to those in the genome of any other mammals, including our closest primate relatives.

Molecular Pathology & Genomics
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Are healthcare workers more likely to get Covid-19 at home?

A team of researchers from Israel has found evidence that suggests healthcare workers are more likely to become infected with COVID-19 at home than at work. 

Microbiology & Virology
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