‘Camouflaged’ app wins “hackathon” to help victims of domestic abuse
'Camouflaged' app wins competition to help victims of domestic abuse. It's the problem-solving computer coding equivalent of the 100m sprint…
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Imperial to begin first human trials of new Covid-19 vaccine
Clinical researchers are this week set to begin human trials of a new coronavirus vaccine developed by researchers at Imperial…
Innovative multiple-organ devices for brain diseases
Innovative multiple-organ devices for brain diseases - researcher Carmen Giordano has received two further grants totaling €280,000 for her work…
Imperial social enterprise to accelerate low-cost COVID-19 vaccine
Imperial College London has formed a new social enterprise VacEquity Global Health (VGH) to bring its COVID-19 vaccine to the…
ECMO Proto Device fights Covid-19
Shandong University Researchers Develop ECMO Proto Device in Aid of Fighting COVID-19. After the COVID-19 outbreak, the name ECMO (Extracorporeal…
Amazing face shield initiative
Engineers at the University of Bradford have started face shield mass production of for the NHS in response to the…
Contact dermatitis: potential new treatments
APOSEC is a biologic wound-healing agent developed by thoracic surgeon Hendrik Jan Ankersmit from MedUni Vienna. Together with dermatological basic…
Covid-19: new respiratory support system
A respiratory support system has been developed in Wales to fight Covid-19. Engineers at University of Wales Trinity Saint David…
UK biobank boosts COVID-19 sample availability
The UK’s leading supplier of human tissue samples is joining forces with a Cambridge Biobank to provide COVID-19 samples for…
Why are antibody tests so unreliable?
A reliable antibody test, showing that someone has already been exposed to Covid 19 and has developed antibodies which suggest…