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The UK government will invest £8.4 million in COVID-19 research projects to reveal more information that can be used to develop therapies and vaccines against the disease.
The UK National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) wish to fund research exploring if people from black, Asian and middle eastern backgrounds are disproportionately at risk from COVID-19.
A total of 21 COVID-19 research projects have been granted funding by the UK government, including vaccine and therapeutic development.
The NIH's Common Fund programme looks towards building a cell map of all individual cells in the human body to aid the detection of disease...
A new link between diminished input from dopamine-firing cells could be crucial in detecting the earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease...
Flow cytometry continues to evolve at a fast pace and provides neuroscientists with the ability to perform many highly-specialised assays simultaneously. It meets the demands of cutting-edge research in neuroscience that has allowed researchers to isolate particular neural cells from heterogeneous population and catalogue its molecular or physical features...
The NIH has announced 13 two-year awards totalling $15m, to develop 3-D microphysiological system platforms that model human disease...
Researchers have determined that a specific region of the duodenal-jejunal flexure, shows a high frequency of gastrointestinal stromal tumours with mutations of the NF1 gene...
Scientists studying cellular enzyme complexes have unexpectedly found that inhibiting EZH2/1 suppressed viral infection in the herpes simplex virus infection...
University of Warwick researchers are to improve the lives of India's millions of psychosis sufferers.
21 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The potential to help thousands of people with eye conditions. However the report reveals a lack of developments for the cause of sight loss in corneal...
4 August 2016 | By National Institute of Health (NIH)
Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites — the first ever — linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Many of these regions of depression-linked genetic variation turn out to be involved in regulating gene expression and the birth of new neurons in the developing brain...
8 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Doctors are harnessing patients’ own immune systems in a pioneering trial taking place in London in an effort to find a new effective treatment for resistant head and neck cancer...
