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“We’re trying to define the disease at the same time as treating it”
look at current care, to understand the underlying course or trajectory of people with long COVID – what is the burden or cost of this and what proportion of people are recovering? That will be our baseline. We realised early on that if we do trials of...
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The parallel pandemics
However, as with many good situations, it seemed a little too good to be true, and this is what we have found to our cost this summer. Australia did see an RSV season six months later than it normally would, occurring in the middle of their summer...
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Preparing for the COVID cohort
achieve the highest possible outcomes. Most, but not all, teachers areresisting this pressure, despite the immense personal cost they feel, knowing that they have been forced into the role of administering the coup de grace that could end the university...
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No, ‘robobees’ are not the answer to pollinator decline
do die off in large numbers, we’d need an uncomfortable number of robobees to replicate their pollination benefits. Robobees cost money to manufacture too, unlike wild insects, so they would perhaps serve only wealthy growers. The world’s smallholder...
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Interview: Sunetra Gupta
in places like India, or in Sub Saharan Africa, where asking someone to stay at home for months is not feasible. The cost is just too high. Of course, I come from India, I've also spent a lot of time in Africa, but one doesn't need to look that far,...
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"All I'm presenting is a range of possibilities"
in places like India, or in Sub Saharan Africa, where asking someone to stay at home for months is not feasible. The cost is just too high. Of course, I come from India, I've also spent a lot of time in Africa, but one doesn't need to look that far,...
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"All I'm presenting is a range of possibilities"
in places like India, or in Sub Saharan Africa, where asking someone to stay at home for months is not feasible. The cost is just too high. Of course, I come from India, I've also spent a lot of time in Africa, but one doesn't need to look that far,...
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Beyond Our Genes. Pathophysiology of Gene and Environment Interaction and Epigenetic Inheritance
some prior knowledge of this research frontier but each chapter is detailed and contains a long reference list. The high cost, however, will mean that it is most likely to be purchased only by libraries and/or institutions. Dr A M Mannion
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"Species are not 'invading', and recorders are volunteers, not soldiers"
signal crayfish in Sweden. Japanese knotweed - generally seen as one of the most troublesome invasive species in Europe. The cost of efforts to control its growth in the UK are thought to have run into billions of pounds. However, most non-native...
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Watch your language
signal crayfish in Sweden. Japanese knotweed - generally seen as one of the most troublesome invasive species in Europe. The cost of efforts to control its growth in the UK are thought to have run into billions of pounds. However, most non-native...
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Sensing success at iGEM
and the preparation and extraction of the toxin for the ELISA assayis complicated. Botulism outbreaks are estimated to cost the food industry about £25m for every person poisoned. Unfortunately, not all companies, especially smaller ones, can afford to...
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Expert panellists come to discuss if it's too late to save our oceans at this year's Biology Week debate
the value of single-use plastics was “zero”. “We need to change the perception that if you buy a product the plastic hasn’t cost you anything. When you buy a bottle of water, the bottle is worth about 500 times as much as the stuff in it, and yet we...
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Extraterrestrial life science
Perceiving the use of the International Space Station (ISS) and the European Space Agency’s (ESA) astronaut corps as too costly, and with little to no economic return, the UK originally chose not to get involved in these activities. UK researchers...
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Focus on: Computer-aided biology
industries. Bioengineers believe moving towards this fully digital-to-automated workflow will vastly reduce the cost and time to market for drugs and other biological products.
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Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero: The Beginner’s Guide to Programming Bacteria
Justin Pahara and Julie Legault Barnes and Noble, £37.99 Thanks to the ever-falling cost and ever-increasing efficiency of genetic engineering, biotech projects that would be unthinkable to multi-million-dollar institutions just five or 10 years ago...
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Access all areas
greater public accessibility. This has been mainly online in the form of open access (OA) publishing. Here, typically the cost of publishing a paper is borne by the author or research funder (via an ‘article processing charge’). This means the publisher...
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How to... reduce your lab's plastic waste
Gone are the days of reusable glass pipettes and culture dishes – disposable plastics are regarded as more convenient and cost-effective. Unfortunately, laboratory plastics have long been deemed non-recyclable because of the nature of their...
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How did Hannibal cross the alps?
discovered. Thanks to the revolution in molecular biology, we can now rapidly isolate and sequence environmental aDNA at low cost. Any experiment to test the hypothesis that Clostridia were left by Hannibal’s army would need to be carefully performed to...
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The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
and the social, business and economic impacts of epidemics. If still unconvinced, the authors remind us of the economic cost of recent epidemics and pandemics – £3.77bn for BSE and £7.5–£11bn for foot-and-mouth disease in the UK; £22–£38bn in east Asia...
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Making Flies Forget
testing in humans. Drosophila would be key for the high-throughput identification and testing of targets with relatively low cost and resource use. This would require active collaboration between Drosophila, mammal and clinical researchers, which could...
