Innovation Category

Highlighting amazing innovations in healthcare and medicine.

Start-up gets backing for liver disease treatment

Australasia, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update
Cell fitness can predict COVID outcomes
Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID patients, according to a University of Queensland study. The study investigated a cellular fitness marker, known …
Australasia, Global Reach, Infection/Disease, Innovation
Start-up gets backing for liver disease treatment
A University of Queensland start-up company, developing a potential new treatment for obesity-related liver disease, has secured a seed investment of $1.3 million from IP Group, a UK-based intellectual property …
Australasia, Cancer
$8M from Snow Medical Research Foundation for …
$8M from Snow Medical Research Foundation to improve outcomes for breast cancer patients: A physician scientist whose research focuses on an important but overlooked problem in cancer biology has been awarded …
Neurology
New understanding of how brain cells talk
Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered that reversing the modification of molecular messages at synapses in the human brain, may contribute to reversible mental health conditions such as …
Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update
Laboratory testing suspension in Wolverhampton
IBMS response to COVID-19 laboratory testing suspension in Wolverhampton: We must assure the same quality of testing and competence of staff as pathology laboratories in the NHS and private healthcare …