All Medical/Health
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…
Re-purposing familiar drugs to defend against COVID 19
Sarah Lawton | Added: 15 May 2020
By Dermot Martin
Drugs with a successful track record against rare diseases occasionally show posi…
Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data
Sarah Lawton | Added: 13 May 2020
A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research, one of the oldest agricultural research instit…
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 …
What’s your poison?
Sarah Lawton | Added: 11 May 2020
Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-mast…
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 …
Activation of the SARS coronavirus 2 revealed
Added: 6 May 2020
The Infection Biology Unit of the German Primate Center (DPZ) - Leibniz Institute for Primate Resea…
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…
A question of reagents
Sarah Lawton | Added: 1 May 2020
At the time of writing, more than 1.3M people have been infected and more than 72,600 deaths have b…
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 …
Good science communication is vital
Added: 28 Apr 2020
There is no more important time to get science communication right than during a pandemic. But, say…
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…
