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Vitae Three Minute Thesis victor is second Kingston Uni winner in a row

September 29, 2022
Bioengineer Sadaf Akbari beat rivals from nearly 70 universities across the UK and Ireland to win an annual ‘elevator pitch’ contest presenting her thesis in just 180 seconds.

Smart hearing system reads lips of masked speakers

September 25, 2022
A hearing aid system under development employs radio frequency sensing paired with artificial intelligence to read lips even when speakers are wearing facemasks.

Precision initiative offers £0.3 million for person-centred medicine

August 26, 2022
Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (PMS-IC) has launched a fund offering up to £0.3 million to aid research ideas to support accurate diagnosis treatment based on individuals’ unique biology.

Polymer technology offers route round cryopreservation bottlenecks

August 26, 2022
A Warwick-based laboratory team report they have mastered a technique to solve one of the abiding frustrations of cell research.

Warning that 1 in 3 adults will lack higher Covid antibody levels by next vaccination round

August 12, 2022
A continued fall in the number of UK adults with higher level Covid antibody levels makes it likely that well over one third will lack this level of protection by...

MDC and ZEISS join forces to catapult complex medicine development

August 12, 2022
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) the not-for-profit organisation established by Innovate UK, has joined forces with the German-based ZEISS to use advanced microscopy solutions to boost drug discovery and complex medicine...

Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’

July 28, 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its predictions of the structure of most of the more than 200 million known proteins, described as...

BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure

July 28, 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure for inherited heart muscle conditions.

Younger men should drink one third of women’s recommended alcohol intake, warns study

July 23, 2022
New advice on the health dangers of alcohol challenges popular assumptions as to which groups are under the greatest threat from the effects of drinking.

Genetic link between Alzheimer’s Disease and gut disorders

July 23, 2022
Gut disorders may indicate a greater risk of suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, concludes research from Australia’s Edith Cowan University.

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