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Predicting heart disease with AI

Added: 30 Apr 2020

A revolutionary new medical device that can predict coronary artery disease – the number one cause …

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…

Largest Synthetic Polysaccharide Assembled

Sarah Lawton | Added: 30 Apr 2020

Chemists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) have set a miles…

BIA #TestingMethods2020 Update

Added: 28 Apr 2020

COVID-19 Vaccine trials start in the UK, testing scales up and knowledge economy support package va…

Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19

Added: 28 Apr 2020

Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx1…

Targeted prevention of preterm labour

Added: 27 Apr 2020

A new approach that targets problematic molecular pathway to prevent preterm labour and birth has b…

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…

Ice-free Arctic seas by 2050

Added: 24 Apr 2020

Arctic sea-ice simulations suggest ice-free summers before 2050 despite rapidly reduced carbon emis…

One step closer to targeted cancer suppression

Added: 24 Apr 2020

A multi-national team from at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Centre and Case Comprehensive…

CERN takes on Covid-19

Added: 9 Apr 2020

The World’s biggest experiment, CERN, has established a task force to identify and support contribu…

Inflatable lab for fast COVID-19 testing

Added: 9 Apr 2020

As many countries rapidly build-up screening and testing infrastructure for Covid-19, a Chinese ins…

Antibody from SARS epidemic reacts with Coronavirus

Added: 9 Apr 2020

An antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s has revealed a potent…

Space-based reflectors to boost solar power

Added: 2 Apr 2020

A project exploring the use of space-based reflectors to shine sunlight towards Earth-bound solar f…

Small plankton bad for carbon sequestration

Added: 2 Apr 2020

A study of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic suggest their cells are smaller than expected ­­–­ m…

Consortium to develop COVID-19 vaccine

Added: 2 Apr 2020

University of Oxford researchers working in an unprecedented vaccine development effort to prevent …

Investment to map COVID-19

Added: 24 Mar 2020

The government have announced a £20 million investment to map how COVID-19 spreads and behaves by u…

Seed funding for oncology drug developer

Added: 24 Mar 2020

A biotechnology company focused on the treatment of cancer has announced an additional £1 million s…

Medtech funding for implant company

Added: 24 Mar 2020

A Newcastle medtech company has secured nearly £250,000 in funding from Innovate UK to further its …

Link found between microbiome and brain

Added: 17 Mar 2020

Researchers have described new molecules which form a direct link between the gut microbiome and th…

Protein map of model plant

Added: 17 Mar 2020

Scientists have created the first comprehensive map of the proteome of the model plant Arabidopsis …