Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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
- 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
- Jan 28
- 1 min
Tobacco publishing ban extended to researchers at industry-owned firms
A group of international respiratory societies has banned researchers associated with tobacco companies from publishing papers in their...
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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
- 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
- Dec 19, 2019
- 1 min
There’s No Winter Break From ‘Publish or Perish’
An analysis of submissions of manuscripts and peer review reports at two journals suggests that a significant number of researchers...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
Senior Chinese research integrity official investigated for academic fraud
The Chinese Academy of Engineering has launched an investigation into prominent Chinese immunologist Xuetao Cao, the president of Nankai...
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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
- May 22, 2019
- 1 min
Why Stellar Research Remains Under the Radar
In 1985, Oxford University diabetes researcher David Matthews published a study in the journal Diabetologia about a computerised...
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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
- Feb 6, 2017
- 1 min
Study retraction reignites concern over China’s possible use of prisoner organs
A journal has decided to retract a 2016 study because of concerns that its data on the safety of liver transplantation involved organs...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 2, 2015
- 1 min
New app helps sickle cell anaemia patients keep medical records
Worldwide, there has been a push to digitalise medical records to make patients active participants in their treatments. A new app, SikL,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 16, 2015
- 1 min
Temporary tattoo measures blood glucose levels
Diabetes patients often have to inject themselves with needles several times a day to check their blood glucose levels. But, a new...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 10, 2014
- 1 min
The rise of patient peer review
Science has often been criticised for seeming 'alien' from the outside. There have been many initiatives to bring science closer to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 17, 2014
- 1 min
Snakebite remedy set to be turned into first-aid tablet
Scientists have designed an oral tablet-like substance that could be a possible treatment for snakebites in the future. The full news...
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