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Human placenta map offers hope against pregnancy threats

May 6, 2024
Pregnancy safe therapies for deadly diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria could be boosted by the creation of the first panoramic map of the human placenta’s infection pathways.

Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio

May 5, 2024
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together on ‘life-changing’ gene therapies.

Cell conversion technique ‘offers boost for personalised treatments’

April 28, 2024
Prospects for personalised treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases could have been boosted by improvements in cell conversion techniques, claim scientists at a leading Swedish institute.

Birmingham’s triage seeks way round drug discovery’s ‘valley of death’

April 21, 2024
Birmingham university has shared details of its drug development model, designed to overcome one of the biggest obstacles to realising and scaling up new discoveries and therapies.

Scottish testing centre prepares for pioneering Alzheimer’s role

April 21, 2024
The University of St Andrews is on course to launch Scotland’s first blood tests for early stage Alzheimer’s, thanks to a collaboration with healthcare giant Roche Diagnostics.

Inventors claim new microscope offers major advance for spintronics

April 20, 2024
Developers responsible for a new microscope say its improved technology enables the instrument to visualise complex electron spin states in materials.

‘Heartphone’ tracker could revolutionise disease prevention

April 14, 2024
The popularity of the smartphone could provide significant advances in the rate of detection of heart failure, suggests collaborative work between Finland’s University of Turku and healthcare tech firm CardioSignal.

Traditional Japanese artistry inspires materials science breakthrough

April 14, 2024
Researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) have introduced a new method for creating the finely structured hydrogels, termed ‘kirigami hydrogels’ expanding possibilities in the field of soft...

Science mourns Nobel physicist Higgs

April 13, 2024
Tributes been made worldwide to Peter Higgs, the Nobel-winning physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson subatomic particle and whose work altered understanding of the universe.

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