Over three million surgical operations and cancer treatments a year in England may become...
New data published by Public Health England (PHE) show that antibiotic resistant bloodstream infections continue to rise in England, with an estimated 35% increase from 2013 to 2017 (from 12,250 in 2013 to...
Genomics leads fight against antimicrobial resistant typhoid
A genomic survey of typhoid fever in Zimbabwe has shown how the bacteria behind recent outbreaks evolved extra levels of antimicrobial resistance.
Researchers from the National Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Quadram Institute and University of East...
Velvet Worm slime could inspire sustainable synthetic materials
Fibers produced from the slime exhibit a strength akin to nylon, yet they can dissolve in water and be reconstituted into new fibers.
n the tropical, temperate forests it calls home, the velvet worm uses...
Unlocking the secret strength of marine mussels
Discovery may lead to medical advances in bio-implants, wearable sensors, & more.
How do you create strong, yet quick-release connections between living and non-living tissues? This is a question that continues to puzzle bioengineers who...
Focus on Alzheimer’s disease – Hope on the horizon
Dr David Reynolds
Chief Scientific Officer at Alzheimer’s Research UK
Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity and is dedicated to funding pioneering research to find ways to understand, diagnose, reduce risk and...
Hope as research unlocks the secrets of heart disease
By Frances Griss
Since the beginning of the 1960s, deaths from heart disease in the UK have halved so that today only 26% of people have a cause of death attributable to the condition, compared with...
New treatment target for neurodegenerative diseases
Long-term neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease could be treated using a completely new drug strategy.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified a potential target for drugs to treat serious neurological conditions and foster...
Do AI models and the human brain process things in the same way?
Deep Neural Networks – part of the broader family of machine learning – have become increasingly powerful in everyday real-world applications such as automated face recognition systems and self-driving cars.
Researchers use Deep Neural Networks,...
Growing microtumours in a dish hailed as ‘rapid way to identify tumour genes’
Researchers have identified a new way to screen genes that cause several different types of cancers to grow, identifying particularly promising targets for precision oncology in oral and esophageal squamous cancers.
The study, published in...
Research offers hope
There is hope in the battle against drug-resistant drugs, though. For example, a newly discovered antibiotic, produced by bacteria from a cystic fibrosis patient, could be used to treat cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB),...
The search for new antimicrobials
Few issues are more pressing than the global problem of antibiotic resistance, so we speak to Professor Mathew Upton, about his work searching for new antibiotics.
“For so long now, antibiotics have been seen as...
Research finds three major failings in some apps used for the diagnosis of skin...
In the scramble to bring successful apps for the diagnosis of skin cancer to market there is a concern that a lack of testing is risking public safety, according to research led by the...
AI disease testing platform developed for military use
Drive to improve the UK’s capability to manage and treat personnel affected by virulent infectious agents.
A portable prototype of an AI-powered disease testing platform for the military is being funded by the Defence and...
Surface research could help control infection
Another front in the war against infection is the introduction of antimicrobial surfaces into hospitals.
By making the environment more hostile to pathogens such as Clostridium difficile and Staphilococcus aureus there will be less...
New research into microplastics and nanoplastics urgently needed due to ‘significant’ health threat
A new metastudy published in Cambridge Prisms: Plastics by Cambridge University Press, has identified a body of evidence demonstrating the negative impact of microplastics and nanoplastics (MPs and NPs) on human health and identifying...
New materials could lead to implantable treatments for epilepsy
A prospective cure for one type of epilepsy could be one step closer, using flexible brain implants.
Bioengineering researchers from the University of Glasgow have investigated new...