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A new app which turns any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device could help in the fight against diseases including HIV, tuberculosis...
A newly-developed coating could enable buildings to have antireflective self-cleaning windows and could increase the efficiency of solar cells.
The largest biometric programme in history – collecting iris and fingerprint patterns of 1.2 billion people in three years – aims to improve the...
A new long-range wireless tag detection system, with potential applications in health care, environmental protection and goods tracking, can pinpoint...
‘Smart’ holograms, which are currently being tested to monitor diabetes, and could be used to monitor a wide range of medical and environmental...
The biggest-ever return to the University seed funds was the highlight of another successful year for the University’s commercialisation arm.
A new technique for determining what causes stem cells to convert into other cell types could revolutionise our understanding of how genes function...
Researchers have identified how the ‘wall’ around cancer tumours functions and how to break it down, enabling the body’s own defences to reach and...
New sequencing technology is transforming epigenetics research, and could greatly improve understanding of cancer, embryo formation, stem cells and...
Two prototypes – a detection device which users lasers to fight fraud, and a piano which demonstrates the potential of printed electronics – have...
New research seeks to take account of the fast pace at which technology is evolving in understanding how to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.
The small plastic tags developed by a University spin-out are helping make modern assembly lines up to ten per cent more efficient, by tracking...