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How to fast without having to fast
Added: 28 May 2020
As modern lifestyles and high calorie diets drive the UK's obesity levels up, researchers from the …

DIY reagents for COVID-19 testing
Added: 20 May 2020
Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create s…

Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing
Added: 18 May 2020
In light of the UK government’s request for employers to enable staff to safely return to work wher…

Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs
Added: 18 May 2020
Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic…

Why men are more vulnerable to Covid-19 than women
Added: 12 May 2020
Evidence from a large study of several thousand patients shows that men have higher concentrations …

AI to map impact of COVID-19 on the heart
Added: 12 May 2020
A joint UK-US research team is applying a pioneering artificial intelligence system to map how the …

Why all newborns should receive BCG vaccine
Added: 7 May 2020
An international research team has identified the mechanism behind one of science's most enduring m…

Virtual conference on low-carbon lifestyle changes
Added: 7 May 2020
More than 500 researchers from all around the world will gather virtually tomorrow Wednesday May 6 …

Confirmed: SARS-CoV-2 has not mutated
Added: 6 May 2020
Analysis work from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research provides evidence that S…

Cyber warning issued for key healthcare organisations
Added: 6 May 2020
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a cyber security warning to healthcare organis…

A counterintuitive approach to treating Covid-19
Added: 4 May 2020
A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body's immune system during the early sta…

Novel potential Covid-19 treatments discovered
Added: 30 Apr 2020
A UK-based biotechnology firm has announced the discovery of two separate novel treatments for Covi…

Certified 3D printed face shields for NHS
Added: 30 Apr 2020
Engineers at the University of Nottingham have designed a PPE face shield with CE approval that the…

Predicting heart disease with AI
Added: 30 Apr 2020
A revolutionary new medical device that can predict coronary artery disease – the number one cause …

BIA #TestingMethods2020 Update
Added: 28 Apr 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine trials start in the UK, testing scales up and knowledge economy support package va…

New collaboration to drive understanding of COVID-19
Added: 27 Apr 2020
A new collaboration between Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins will work to…

PM announces new NHS AI lab
Added: 8 Aug 2019
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has allocated £250 million for investment in AI, including a new lab f…

Alderley Park to run Japanese AMR therapy
Added: 23 Jul 2019
Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi is out-licensing its anti-virulence therapy to the AMR Cen…

Oxford BioEscalator opens for medical startups
Added: 28 Jun 2019
The University of Oxford has opened a new innovation centre for early-stage medical science compani…