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New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’
Added: 4 Sep 2020
A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19…
Coronavirus 'trap and zap' technology
Added: 24 Aug 2020
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technolog…
Converting self-sterilising water filtration technologies for COVID-19 protection
Added: 24 Aug 2020
With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that …
Medicines Discovery Catapult creates a worldwide virtual biobank
Added: 18 Aug 2020
Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply net…
Coronaviruses amplified along wildlife supply chain
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Coronaviruses were detected in a high proportion of bats and rodents in Viet Nam from 2013 to 2014,…
Improved cybernetics hardware - human interfacing
Added: 17 Aug 2020
Although true 'cyborgs' -- part human, part robotic beings -- are science fiction, researchers are …
New international carbon dating standard
Added: 13 Aug 2020
Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientis…
AI stratification significantly improves treatment outcomes for COVID-19 patients
Added: 11 Aug 2020
AN EIT Health project demonstrates early positive results on improving treatment outcomes of patien…
A truffle's tale... 40 years in the making
Added: 7 Aug 2020
As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology at Oregon State University, Dan Luoma att…
Advantage flat angel shark
Added: 7 Aug 2020
The general picture of a shark is that of a fast and large ocean predator. Some species, however, q…
Plugging the power leak for fusion reactions
Added: 6 Aug 2020
Scientists have found a novel way to prevent pesky magnetic bubbles in plasma from interfering with…
How flying snakes glide
Added: 6 Aug 2020
Flying snakes glide through the air, flattening their bodies to provide lift. But as they glide the…
Computational model could help translate drugs from animal studies to human
Added: 5 Aug 2020
About 50% of people who take the drug infliximab for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's d…
Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite reveals new penguin colonies
Added: 5 Aug 2020
A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin co…
Hydrogel paves way for biomedical breakthrough
Added: 4 Aug 2020
A University of Sydney team of biomedical engineers has developed a plasma technology to robustly a…
First UK COVID-19 vaccine to be manufactured in Wales
Added: 3 Aug 2020
Wockhardt, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology major today announced that it has entered in…
Splash down for first commercial crew flight to Space Station
Added: 3 Aug 2020
Two NASA astronauts splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday for the first time in a comme…
Advanced Engineering and Lab Innovations: visitors are in safe hands
Added: 31 Jul 2020
The UK Government has recently endorsed the reopening of conferences and exhibitions, releasing a s…
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission launched
Added: 31 Jul 2020
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of …
Wales to gain equitable access to advanced therapies
Added: 29 Jul 2020
Advanced Therapies Wales (ATW) programme has been established to harness the benefits from emerging…
