Covid-19: UK extends lateral flow test authorisation despite US warning not to use them

Rapid Lateral Flow Test Strips

Providing Safe and Effective Surgical Care During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the UK – Changing Strategies

Coded Mask Imagers when to use them – and when not

Coded mask imagers are among a class of high energy astronomical instruments in which spatial or temporal coding, or a combination of the two, allows ‘multiplexing’ of the detection process. In this way many ‘pixels’ of an image can be observed and measured simultaneously. In certain circumstances this gives an advantage in signal to noise ratio, compared with an alternative approach in which e...

Research antibodies: do not use them to stain your reputation.

IN A RECENT ROUNDTABLE organized by the Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB) on data reproducibility and antibodies (8), we learned how the sale and use of antibodies place both basic and preclinical research at risk of losing support from the public at large, from funding agencies, and from Congress. Hundreds of millions of dollars are wasted annually on poor data ...

Use of Protection Motivation Theory to Assess Preventive Behaviors of COVID-19

Background and purpose: The global prevalence and morbidity of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are high. Preventive behaviors are proven to reduce the damage caused by the disease. There is a paucity of information on determinants of preventive behaviors in response to COVID-19 in Mazandaran province, north of Iran. So, we aimed to evaluate protection motivation theory (PMT) in promoting pr...