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‘Citizen army’ sought to assess Scotland’s mosquito threat

May 13, 2024
Citizen scientists are being recruited to help a collaborative project led by an alliance of academics, medical experts and government institutions to track mosquito activity in Scotland.

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.

‘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.

Global forum’s cash challenge to boost cardiovascular funding

April 7, 2024
The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), has announced a new cash prize aimed at improving funding strategies for impactful research into heart related conditions.

Study links inbreeding and pregnancy loss in horses

April 6, 2024
Mid and late term pregnancy loss among thoroughbred horses appears to correlate significantly with the prevalence of inbreeding, according a Royal Veterinary College study.

PacBio system to assist Estonia’s national genome scheme

April 1, 2024
Estonia’s University of Tartu has chosen PacBio’s Revio HiFi sequencing system for the next stage of one of the most ambitious national population genome projects.

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