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'Huge potential' in virtual clinical trials
A study involving virtual rather than real patients was as effective in evaluating a medical device used鈥� to treat 鈥痓rain 鈥痑neurysms, according to new research.
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Severe drying of the Amazon forest
Amazon rain forests could be at far higher risk of extreme drought than previously thought, according to new research.
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Ground-breaking lung cancer trial gets under way
The first participants have taken part in a ground-breaking research trial that aims to save lives by improving the early diagnosis of lung cancer.
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Brotherton Library in bid to save works by Bront毛s, Scott and Austen
The Brotherton Library at Leeds is part of a consortium to save one of the most important collections of manuscripts and books in the UK from returning into private ownership.
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A low-cost life support machine for patients with covid
A device that helps desperately sick patients breathe and鈥痗osts around 拢150 to manufacture鈥� could revolutionise
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Pandemic shift to home working could create UK tax crisis
The shift to home working brought about by the pandemic could cost the UK economy up to 拢32bn a year in lost personal income tax.
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A sharper focus on protein behaviour
Scientists have developed a new computational technique that allows them to see in finer detail the way protein molecules behave.
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Recreating a step in the evolution of viruses
An international team of researchers has shed new light on the way viruses evolved highly effective ways of spreading disease.
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Transforming care for babies born with heart disease
Leeds is leading pioneering research into new technology for imaging babies with congenital heart disease (CHD).
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Baroness Doreen Lawrence to give 2021 Alice Bacon Lecture
Anti-racism campaigner Baroness Doreen Lawrence OBE is to give the latest public lecture in a University series honouring Yorkshire鈥檚 first female MP.