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 world. For the UK and...
Innovation
The Innovation section showcases a variety of groundbreaking developments in healthcare and medicine. It includes diverse topics such as empowering students in skin health through design, developing wearable diagnostics for neuromuscular diseases, and utilizing “superhero bugs” and AI in combating infections. The section also covers significant research funding awards, collaborations like Coventry University joining the Turing University network, and advancements in early breast cancer detection using robotic technology. Additionally, it explores the integration of AI in electronic health records, clinical trials for spinal cord injuries, and innovative medical applications like using substances from poisonous mushrooms against kidney cancer, emphasizing the dynamic and transformative nature of medical innovation.
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 Membrane Oxygenation) has caught the...
Amazing face shield initiative
Engineers at the University of Bradford have started face shield mass production of for the NHS in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The project is...
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 researcher Michael Mildner, also from...
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 (UWTSD) have been involved in...
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 scientists. The only UK-owned virtual...
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 immunity, could be a ‘game...
Plug and Play: bionic arm prostheses
Next milestone in the development of bionic arm prostheses with major contribution from the Medical University of Vienna: in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of...
Nanoparticles effective in treatment of severe inflammatory processes
Researchers from the Galien Institute at Paris-Saclay University/ CNRS have developed nanoparticles that are effective in the treatment of severe inflammatory processes which can be...
Covid-19: AI auto-scans lung X-rays
Coronavirus can be identified automatically from sick patients' lung X-rays using artificial intelligence (AI) developed at Brunel University London. The algorithm, which detects coronavirus diseases...
