All Medical Diagnostics

Data shows higher heart failure death risk for ethnic minorities
Added: 3 Jun 2024
Analysis of nearly 17,000 patients’ data reveals ethnic minority patients with heart failure have a…

Global oncology trial investigator sites increased by half in five years, finds new Phesi analysis
Added: 28 May 2024
Global cancer trial investigator sites have increased 50% in just five years but led to a rise in t…

Human placenta map offers hope against pregnancy threats
Added: 6 May 2024
Pregnancy safe therapies for deadly diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria could be b…

Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio
Added: 6 May 2024
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together…

Cell conversion technique ‘offers boost for personalised treatments’
Added: 28 Apr 2024
Prospects for personalised treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases could have been boost…

Birmingham’s triage seeks way round drug discovery’s ‘valley of death’
Added: 21 Apr 2024
Birmingham university has shared details of its drug development model, designed to overcome one of…

Scottish testing centre prepares for pioneering Alzheimer’s role
Added: 21 Apr 2024
The University of St Andrews is on course to launch Scotland’s first blood tests for early stage Al…

‘Heartphone’ tracker could revolutionise disease prevention
Added: 14 Apr 2024
The popularity of the smartphone could provide significant advances in the rate of detection of hea…

Global forum’s cash challenge to boost cardiovascular funding
Added: 7 Apr 2024
The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), has announced a new cash prize aimed at i…

PacBio system to assist Estonia’s national genome scheme
Added: 1 Apr 2024
Estonia’s University of Tartu has chosen PacBio’s Revio HiFi sequencing system for the next stage o…

UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treat…

Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic
Added: 24 Mar 2024
A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style h…

Three nation European partnership to advance heart disease treatment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The British Heart Foundation (BHF), Dutch Heart Foundation (DHF) and German Centre for Cardiovascul…

Fox Foundation and bit.bio announce first Parkinson’s project
Added: 10 Mar 2024
The Michael J Fox Foundation and Cambridge synthetic biology company bit.bio have announced their f…

Gates Foundation grant opens door to PhaSER project acceleration
Added: 25 Feb 2024
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted Edinburgh’s PhaSER Biomedical a US$2.3 million gran…

Memory deterioration prevented in animal model of Alzheimer’s
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Suppressing neuronal activity in the part of the brain that regulates sleep can prevent memory dete…

Cherwell joins global brand AnalytiChem Group
Added: 14 Jan 2024
Cleanroom microbiology solutions leader Cherwell Laboratories has been acquired by the German globa…

Aston mourns pharmacy school pioneer Mike Brown
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Aston University Pharmacy School has announced the recent death of Professor Mike Brown, who was in…

DEFRA data share essential to pandemic preparation urges expert
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Non-healthcare bodies such as DEFRA need to collaborate more fully with healthcare organisations in…

BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre
Added: 19 Nov 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish t…