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MARBLES Annual Meeting 2024 in Denmark
04 Sept 2024
The third annual MARBLES meeting took place from 28-29 August 2024 in beautiful Rungsted facilitated by our partner the Technological University of Denmark (DTU).
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Improving the odds: Artificial intelligence (AI) and the great plate count anomaly
30 Aug 2024
MARBLES partner Wageningen University has published an opinion paper on how artificial intelligence (AI) could help to isolate currently unculturable bacteria.
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Policy Brief – Next Steps for Genetic Resources and Innovation? The WIPO Treaty and BBNJ Agreement Interface
12 Aug 2024
At the second meeting of the “Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources” (WGDSI-2) which is taking place this week, 12 -16 August 2024 in Montreal, Canada, MARBLES and BlueRemediomics partner University of Aberdeen (UNIABDN) will be sharing their latest policy brief draft.
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The DSI Scientific Network
01 Aug 2024
The DSI Scientific Network is a global network of researchers, including MARBLES partner University of Aberdeen (UNIABDN), that are speaking out for sensible policies on Digital Sequence Information (DSI).
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Pharmaceuticals from marine sources: past, present and future
30 Jul 2024
A review of the factors that make marine natural products such a desirable target for drug discovery in the future, including the field's history, clinical trial accomplishments, and the challenges of achieving approval.
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MARBLES at ICNPR 2024: Natural Product Discovery
22 Jul 2024
Together with fellow AIMS Cluster projects InnCoCells and SECRETED, MARBLES organised the Session IV: Prospecting aquatic and terrestrial natural biological resources for biologically active compounds on 15 July 2024 in Krakow at the International Congress on Natural Products Research (ICNPR), the biggest conference in natural products chemistry!
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Special Issue of Marine Drugs - Submissions deadline extended to 30 November 2024
04 Jul 2024
MARBLES researcher Stephen Jackson (UCC) is the Guest Editor for the Special Issue 'Exploiting Marine 'Omics' Technologies for the Biodiscovery of Marine Natural Products'.
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MARBLES presented at Functional Metagenomics 2024 in South Africa
25 Jun 2024
MARBLES partner SINTEF presented the project at the conference in Kruger National Park, South Africa. The conference included a wide range of ‘omics’ technologies used in microbiome studies, including the fields of metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, metaviromics, metabolomics, bioinformatics and 3-D structural mining
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Upper surface of coastal waters can accumulate bacteria and antibiotics
14 Jun 2024
In new research presented at ASM Microbe 2024, scientists find antibiotics in the uppermost water surface can significantly affect the number of bacteria present and contribute to the adaptation of marine bacteria against widely used antibiotics
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MARBLES part of AIMS Cluster Session IV at ICNPR 2024: Natural Product Discovery
07 Jun 2024
Session IV (Prospecting aquatic and terrestrial natural biological resources for biologically active compounds) taking place on 15 July 2024 in Krakow at the International Congress On Natural Products Research (ICNPR), the biggest conference in natural products chemistry!
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How can a marine sponge cure us?
28 May 2024
MARBLES researcher Niels van der Windt from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, recently explained how marine sponges can be used to cure us during a Spotlight Session in the Museum
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Drug resistance from overuse of antibiotics for common infections could kill millions
13 May 2024
According to the UK’s special envoy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Prof Dame Sally Davies, the COVID-19 pandemic will “look minor” compared with what humanity faces with rise of drug-resistant superbugs.