In response to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, Diabetes UK has today launched a £100,000 grant, available for scientists to study how coronavirus affects people living with diabetes. The charity is urging scientists to submit their research applications now. · £100,000 grant could help answer vital questions about COVID-19 and diabetes · In light of the […]
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A new virtual consultation service – www.doctorinthehouse.net – launched today to provide a free, safe healthcare service that links worried patients to at-home healthcare professionals. The aim is to ease the pressure on the NHS during the COVID-19 outbreak; and to give patients first-hand consultations during the lock-down. This service can scale-up at speed to […]
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A Scotland-based virtual biobank dealing in ethically sourced human tissue samples is helping to speed up the provision of COVID-19 samples for researchers and drug developers working to find a cure for the global pandemic. Tissue Solutions Ltd, founded in 2007, responded to the UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre’s (TDCC) call to action in […]
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The Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University are tracking the COVID-19 spread in real-time on their interactive dashboard with data available for download. They are also modeling the spread of the virus. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 […]
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William Bowen, discusses Efficiency Squared, a start-up he created with James Coates to streamline simple tasks which researchers do every day. At the outset of 2019, I found myself sitting at dinner with a family friend, James Coates, discussing challenges that medical research teams are facing globally. Funding, of course, he remarked is always a […]
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Researchers at the University of East Anglia have launched a project to 3D print ventilator parts, masks and other critical equipment to battle the Covid-19 virus. They are working with the tech community to access 3D printers, as well people with the necessary skills to work at pace to design and make equipment. They are […]
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Fast, reliable and automatic assessment of the severity of myoclonic jerks from video footage is now possible, thanks to an algorithm using deep convolutional neural network architecture and pretrained models that identify and track keypoints in the human body. Published in Seizure, the study is a joint effort by the Epilepsy Centre at Kuopio University […]
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New research led by Queen’s University Belfast aims to better understand the link between diet and disease in India. A disproportionately high number of premature death in India are caused by preventable diet-related disease. However, to date there is limited information on dietary intake among the Indian population. Researchers at Queen’s University, All India Institute […]
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The Government should publish its long-awaited vaccination strategy as soon as possible to help reverse a dramatic decline in take-up and protect young and vulnerable people from deadly infections, the Local Government Association says today. While uptake for most childhood immunisations is at more than 90 per cent, there has been a significant decline in […]
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New research shows how second-degree burns cause hard-to-treat chronic pain, and this understanding may be key to treating these complications, common in war veterans This research, published in Physiological Reports, suggests that burns cause changes to neurons in multiple parts of the spinal cord, even far from the injury site, which can contribute to chronic pain and other long-term complications. […]
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