October 2021

Working flexibly across sites

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

Here to help: It helps to help each other

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

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.

The support hub

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

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.

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.

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.

Type 1 diabetes blood test

A new paper has been published by a global collaborative group on developing a simplified blood test that increases the overall screening efficiency for type 1 diabetes.

Turning normal cells into cancer cells

There is new evidence that normal human fibroblast cells can be converted to specific cancer cells using only factors that are commonly detected in actual human patients.

Will Covid certificates work?

The lack of global standards for coronavirus certificates is a key barrier to their successful implementation around the world, a new report warns.

Fridge-free vaccines

US nanoengineers have developed COVID-19 vaccine candidates that do not need cold-chain distribution.

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