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Imperial’s smart heart reading T-shirt nets £340k
Added: 6 Jan 2025
Imperial College London researchers have secured more than a third of a million pounds to enable th…

Swallow research produces Eppendorf win for Seeholzer
Added: 20 Oct 2024
American Laura Seeholzer is this year’s winner of the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology, i…

Young innovator turns to 3D to scale up stroke recovery tool
Added: 8 Sep 2024
Innovate UK’s 2023 Young Innovators award winner is using 3D printing to put his stroke recovery th…

Smart clothes are the new cutting edge of physio tech
Added: 7 Jul 2024
Smart phones and watches may have met their match from a surprising source when it comes to trackin…

Study links inbreeding and pregnancy loss in horses
Added: 7 Apr 2024
Mid and late term pregnancy loss among thoroughbred horses appears to correlate significantly with …

Nottingham uni spin-out secures UKRI £1 million for gene therapy tech
Added: 6 Sep 2023
University of Nottingham spin-outTherageniX and collaborator the University of Nottingham, have bee…

Can science tackle ACL threat to women players’ World Cup success?
Added: 20 Aug 2023
The knee injury England midfielder Keira Walsh narrowly avoided at the World Cup has been identifie…

Sponge enables robot to crack the egg challenge
Added: 11 Jun 2023
Robots have demonstrated their efficiency over the human and manual approach in many areas but stil…

Wearable tech enhances potential for friends-based mental health support
Added: 15 Apr 2023
Wearable tech that shares data between small circles of close friends and relations could provide a…

Enhanced computer modelling offers improved training for trainee surgeons
Added: 12 Feb 2023
Modelling improvements have enabled a research team at Bristol University to refine the use of virt…

UK research teams share £2.5 million kidney funding boost
Added: 3 Feb 2023
Fourteen projects focused on kidney disease treatment are to share one of the most sizeable funding…

Science reveals why Roy Keane's like a Rottweiler
Added: 1 Feb 2023
What does Roy Keane have in common with a Rottweiler? Physiologically, quite a lot – or rather a sh…

Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images i…

Birmingham Uni institute’s Arlt to be new MRC London Institute Director
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Award-winning clinical endocrinologist Professor Wiebke Arlt will be the new Director of the Medica…

Data explosion threatens Catch 22 for pathogen research
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Science’s efforts to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being hampered by th…

Kent Uni lab aims to tackle footballer cardiac threat
Added: 20 Nov 2022
The University of Kent claims it has achieved a first for UK labs by directly imaging at photomicro…

Database of 4 million race starts enables major study of Thoroughbred sudden death
Added: 31 Oct 2022
The first study ever made on a large scale of sudden death in Thoroughbred race horses has suggeste…

Nikon Small World hands awards first place to photogenic gecko image
Added: 16 Oct 2022
The three millimetre hand of a lizard embryo captured on camera in incredible detail has won first …

Quantum, click and evolution provide Nobel Science-winning ingredients
Added: 6 Oct 2022
Quantum physics, click chemistry and evolutionary breakthroughs were the dominant themes for this y…

Vitae Three Minute Thesis victor is second Kingston Uni winner in a row
Added: 30 Sep 2022
Bioengineer Sadaf Akbari beat rivals from nearly 70 universities across the UK and Ireland to win a…