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New chemosensor offers chance for battery free remote lactic testing
Added: 24 Jun 2024
Lactic acid testing for healthcare and in professional sports could be rendered cheaper and more ef…
Welcome for Euro IVD amendment
Added: 23 Jun 2024
EU action to avoid an impending compliance deadline for manufacturers causing a widespread shortage…
Machine learning offers means to raise accuracy of cancer analysis
Added: 11 Jun 2024
AI collaborators in Britain and the UK have developed a computer system that they say can spot canc…
New test could prevent major cause of sudden child deaths
Added: 11 Jun 2024
A new test designed to measure blood proteins could detect the presence of a serious heart conditio…
Data shows higher heart failure death risk for ethnic minorities
Added: 3 Jun 2024
Analysis of nearly 17,000 patients’ data reveals ethnic minority patients with heart failure have a…
Global oncology trial investigator sites increased by half in five years, finds new Phesi analysis
Added: 28 May 2024
Global cancer trial investigator sites have increased 50% in just five years but led to a rise in t…
Human placenta map offers hope against pregnancy threats
Added: 6 May 2024
Pregnancy safe therapies for deadly diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria could be b…
Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio
Added: 6 May 2024
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together…
Cell conversion technique ‘offers boost for personalised treatments’
Added: 28 Apr 2024
Prospects for personalised treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases could have been boost…
Birmingham’s triage seeks way round drug discovery’s ‘valley of death’
Added: 21 Apr 2024
Birmingham university has shared details of its drug development model, designed to overcome one of…
Scottish testing centre prepares for pioneering Alzheimer’s role
Added: 21 Apr 2024
The University of St Andrews is on course to launch Scotland’s first blood tests for early stage Al…
‘Heartphone’ tracker could revolutionise disease prevention
Added: 14 Apr 2024
The popularity of the smartphone could provide significant advances in the rate of detection of hea…
Global forum’s cash challenge to boost cardiovascular funding
Added: 7 Apr 2024
The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), has announced a new cash prize aimed at i…
PacBio system to assist Estonia’s national genome scheme
Added: 1 Apr 2024
Estonia’s University of Tartu has chosen PacBio’s Revio HiFi sequencing system for the next stage o…
UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treat…
Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic
Added: 24 Mar 2024
A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style h…
Three nation European partnership to advance heart disease treatment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The British Heart Foundation (BHF), Dutch Heart Foundation (DHF) and German Centre for Cardiovascul…
Fox Foundation and bit.bio announce first Parkinson’s project
Added: 10 Mar 2024
The Michael J Fox Foundation and Cambridge synthetic biology company bit.bio have announced their f…
Gates Foundation grant opens door to PhaSER project acceleration
Added: 25 Feb 2024
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted Edinburgh’s PhaSER Biomedical a US$2.3 million gran…
Memory deterioration prevented in animal model of Alzheimer’s
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Suppressing neuronal activity in the part of the brain that regulates sleep can prevent memory dete…
