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Fighting TB with light and sound

A UK-wide research team has developed an innovative way to monitor the reaction of living bacteria to antibiotics using lasers and sound.

COVID-19 symposium

Professors Garry Taylor and Frank Sullivan took part in a video symposium on COVID-19 with doctors in Beijing and Wuhan.

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Early diagnosis institute

A new institute has been created to help improve earlier diagnosis of cancer, cardiovascular disease, mental health and infection.

£1m grant for health database

Professor Colin McCowan will lead an initiative for Health Data Research UK to build a national data resource for 'multimorbidity'.

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New drug to fight cancer

A team of scientists at the University of St Andrews have used a genetic screening approach to investigate a potential new cancer treatment.

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New test for colorectal cancer

A new prognostic method, which would allow colorectal cancer patients to be identified more accurately, has been created at St Andrews.