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Health data project appeals for 5 million UK volunteers
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Five million UK adults are being invited to participate in one of the largest and most ambitious he…
Global initiative aims to identify disease-linked genome variations
Added: 31 Oct 2022
A newly formed international collaborative science project created with the aim of identifying vari…
Global project to measure carbon footprint of clinical trials
Added: 16 Oct 2022
A new international initiative is developing a methodology to assess the respective environmental i…
Online games and brain stimulation offers hope for combating working memory decline
Added: 16 Oct 2022
Tailored online games combined with a form of brain stimulation appear to show significant results …
Professional rugby players may have greater neurodegenerative disease risk, suggests research
Added: 9 Oct 2022
Former international rugby players included in a recent health study showed risks of neurodegenerat…
Ukraine conflict leaves a hole in clinical trials enrolment in region
Added: 9 Oct 2022
Clinical trials in Ukraine and Russia have plunged by around 50% during 2022, according to the late…
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…
Smart hearing system reads lips of masked speakers
Added: 26 Sep 2022
A hearing aid system under development employs radio frequency sensing paired with artificial intel…
Kidney charity unveils competition for dialysis innovation
Added: 11 Sep 2022
Just weeks after a pioneering dialysis technology won a prestigious engineering award, a leading UK…
Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report
Added: 20 Aug 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …
Sustainability may impact water security more than economics alone
Added: 20 Aug 2022
Equality of access among households to water supplies that are clean and plentiful may owe as much …
UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films
Added: 13 Aug 2022
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a ma…
MDC and ZEISS join forces to catapult complex medicine development
Added: 13 Aug 2022
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) the not-for-profit organisation established by Innovate UK, has …
BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure
Added: 29 Jul 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure f…
Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’
Added: 29 Jul 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its pre…
Younger men should drink one third of women’s recommended alcohol intake, warns study
Added: 24 Jul 2022
New advice on the health dangers of alcohol challenges popular assumptions as to which groups are u…
Time for masks not musical chairs, health secretary told
Added: 9 Jul 2022
Incoming health secretary Steve Barclay has been urged to reintroduce the wearing of facemasks and …
Lack of sustained hypertension treatment undermines health objectives
Added: 9 Jul 2022
Discontinued hypertension treatment in some of the world’s leading middle-income nations is a signi…
Pistoia Alliance announces first female president
Added: 25 Jun 2022
Pistoia Alliance, the global body which promotes non-competitive R&D collaboration among leading li…
