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International Labmate brings you the latest life sciences news and laboratory innovations, together with our partner’s products and services that support research across the analytical, healthcare and life science sectors. This month’s Labmate-Online.com newsletter draws together a wide sweep of research that spans infectious disease, oncology, neuroscience and even the hidden history of wine. You can read how light-activated ruthenium sensitises drug-resistant E. coli to antibiotics, how chemotherapy might help to expose latent HIV-infected T cell clones, and how COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy has been linked to lower risks of severe illness and premature birth. We explore fresh insights into long Covid, from eight distinct symptom trajectories to its place within a broader history of post-acute infection syndromes, and report on a world-first discovery that the fertility gene PRDM9 helps glioblastoma cells evade chemotherapy. Elsewhere, we cover the European Medicines Agency’s response to pharmaceutical law reform in the European Union, and reveal how psilocybin and rabies virus tracing illuminate psychedelic effects on the depressive brain. Finally we also examine evidence that human papillomavirus vaccination lowers the risk of severe precancerous lesions, highlight a Frontiers whitepaper on artificial intelligence in peer review, and uncover how modern cabernet sauvignon still carries an epigenetic imprint of its seventeenth-century French origins. Plus there is much more to read on the website everyday.

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