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Predicting trends in clinical motion tracking technologies
Added: 18 Nov 2020
Read an expert vision of the future where clinicians have been wooed by motion tracking wearables t…

Cambridge bioscience partnership seeks rising stars in AI
Added: 17 Nov 2020
Calling all bright young things as a multi-disciplined partnership of globally reknowned academic a…

Malaria test as simple as a bandage
Added: 5 Nov 2020
Testing for malaria could become as simple as putting on a bandage. That's the idea behind a platfo…

CRISPR vs COVID-19: the clues in our genes
Added: 28 Oct 2020
Does our genetic makeup make us more or less susceptible to COVID-19? Can genetic analysis help us …

Diabetes-in-a-dish model uncovers new insights
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Using cells taken from patients with type 2 diabetes and new techniques to convert them into specia…

Submit your COVID-19 data to the global vaccine effort
Added: 4 Sep 2020
More than 73,000 users collaborate on a new online platform set up by the European Open Science Clo…

First rapid breath test for Coronavirus trialled
Added: 4 Sep 2020
Canterbury-based technology firm ANCON Medical (‘Ancon’) announces the trial of its Nanotechnology …

New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’
Added: 4 Sep 2020
A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19…

Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank
Added: 18 Aug 2020
Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply net…

AI stratification significantly improves treatment outcomes for COVID-19 patients
Added: 11 Aug 2020
AN EIT Health project demonstrates early positive results on improving treatment outcomes of patien…

Study delivers animal replacement method for vaccine testing
Added: 23 Jul 2020
Dutch, Bilthoven based, Intravacc, a global leader intranslational research and development of vira…

Manchester expert launches COVID-19 global task force
Added: 17 Jul 2020
A world-leading materials expert from The University of Manchester is helping to launch a new globa…

New molecular tool precisely edits mitochondrial DNA
Added: 14 Jul 2020
The genome in mitochondria -- the cell's energy-producing organelles -- is involved in disease and …

5G could support telesurgery during COVID-19 pandemic
Added: 14 Jul 2020
A surgeon demonstrated how telesurgery could be successfully performed using robotic technology and…

Monitoring COVID-19 plasma viscosity
Added: 3 Jul 2020
A clinical viscosity diagnostic instrument is proving to be valuable in the research and treatment …

Instant diagnostic photonics scan for bladder cancer (BLC)
Added: 2 Jul 2020
Thousands of lives lost to bladder cancers each year could be saved thanks to a new scanner that us…

First volunteer receives new Imperial COVID-19 vaccine
Added: 26 Jun 2020
The first healthy volunteer has received a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers led by …

UK Gov invests £400 million in innovation
Added: 26 Jun 2020
Seven major research and innovation projects across the UK have today (Friday 26 June) received ove…

Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025
Added: 25 Jun 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human right…

Higher rates of severe COVID-19 in ethnic minorities remain unexplained
Added: 23 Jun 2020
Higher rates of severe COVID-19 infections among ethnic minorities are not explained by socioeconom…