Dalmeet Singh Chawla
A Conversation with Renee Wegrzyn, inaugural director of ARPA-H
In September 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden appointed applied biologist Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of the Advanced Research...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
Why children have to wait years for new drugs
A shortage of participants means that paediatric trials take longer and there is less financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 13, 2022
- 1 min
The chemist who uses paper devices to spot fake and substandard drugs
For years, chemist Marya Lieberman of the University of Notre Dame and her team have been developing analytical paper diagnostics that...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
French inquiry censures lab that promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid
A probe instigated by the French health ministry has found ‘serious malfunctions’ in the laboratory of Didier Raoult, a microbiologist...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
Protective treatment for Covid-19 makes minimal impact
There is limited uptake of Covid-19 treatments targeted at immunocompromised people and those who aren’t responsive to Covid-19 vaccines,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
A Conversation with Steve Trim
I spoke to Steve Trim, the founder of the firm Venomtech, about why he decided to create a company entirely focussed on finding drugs in...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 11, 2021
- 1 min
Covid-19 vaccines: Everything you need to know about the leading shots
I wrote about what we know so far about Covaxin — the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech in India. The full article, which...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 27, 2021
- 1 min
Editors give green light to patients co-authoring manuscripts
Most editors-in-chiefs of scholarly journals have no objection to patients being included as co-authors of research papers when they...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 25, 2020
- 1 min
Immunotherapies target multiple myeloma
Treatments that help the immune system fight multiple myeloma are emerging fast, but the number of people who relapse remains high. One...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 4, 2020
- 1 min
COVID vaccinations could use a nudge
While researchers around the world are developing vaccines for COVID-19, in the coming months governments will face another major...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 14, 2020
- 1 min
Does hydroxychloroquine still have a role to play in this pandemic?
Hydroxychloroquine has had a busy few months. After being repeatedly endorsed by US President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
UK seeks to scale-up Covid-19 testing but large gaps in capabilities remain
The UK is aiming to drastically scale up Covid-19 testing of its population, with health secretary Matt Hancock saying the country plans...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 14, 2020
- 1 min
They Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered the Lottery
A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 13, 2019
- 1 min
What to Know About the Connection Between Blueberries and Memory
Blueberries are fascinating to scientists. In humans, the berries have been shown to lower blood pressure and help kids perform better on...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 24, 2019
- 1 min
Can Gut Bacteria Heal Food Allergies?
The number of people with food allergies has risen sharply in the last few decades, especially in Western nations. Around 8% of American...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 26, 2019
- 1 min
Top UK funders don’t support most highly cited health researchers
Most UK-based scientists who penned the most highly research in the last decade are not funded by the country’s top health funders,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 7, 2019
- 1 min
Experts Still Disagree Over the Value of Vaping
Smoking is the most preventable cause of death, causing nearly 6 million deaths worldwide every year. At current rates, this figure is...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 7, 2018
- 1 min
Why Drugs for Alzheimer’s Are So Hard to Develop
Finding treatments for Alzheimer’s disease is simultaneously one of the most pressing and difficult tasks in medicine today. Between 2000...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 1, 2018
- 1 min
Young People May Be the Loneliest of All
Young people today seem more connected than ever to their peers. Compared to older generations, the under-25 crowd grew up with laptops,...
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