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Covance By Labcorp wins prestigious Princess Royal Training Award and shares accolade with learning partner University of Leeds
Covance by Labcorp has been awarded the Princess Royal Training award for the development of the MSc Biopharmaceutical Development (Ind) degree, created in partnership with the University of Leeds.
Unravelling the process that makes viruses infectious
Researchers have for the first time identified the way viruses like the poliovirus and the common cold virus ‘package up’ their genetic code, allowing them to infect cells.
How a protein ‘hunkers down’ to conserve energy
A visualisation made from nearly 100,000 electron microscope images has revealed the ingenious way a protein involved in muscle activity shuts itself down to conserve energy.
The protein helping to explain foot-and-mouth's infectiousness
Scientists have conducted a ‘molecular dissection’ of a part of the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease, to try and understand why the pathogen is so infectious.
Reducing single-use plastic in Laboratories
Single-use plastic consumption in the Leeds Protein Production Facility (PPF), a core research facility within the Faculty of Biological Sciences, is being reduced.