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5 Jul 2024: Artemis and How Are You? – rapid screening ofmental distress. Background. Mental ill-health (MH) is a global concern that costs UK economy £117.9 billionannually, deepening during the pandemic. Major barriers to addressing thisissue are:. 1.

5 Jul 2024: High energy density lithium-sulfur batteries. Background. Lithium-sulfur batteries have the capability to significantly outperform the state-of-the-art lithium ion batteries currently found on the market. Generatingpower via redox reactions allows Li

5 Jul 2024: Cathode coatings for NMC batteries. Background. It is well established that the capacity of lithium ion cells can be improved byincreasing the proportion of nickel relative to manganese and cobalt in the so-termed NMC cathodes. The lower reliance on

5 Jul 2024: ISOLDE: Building High Quality MacromolecularModels into Low Resolution Experimental Maps. ISOLDE is a ChimeraX plugin (installable via its built-in Tool Shed)designed to ease the task of building high quality macromolecularmodels into low to medium

5 Jul 2024: BloodCounts! an early warning system forinfections outbreaks. Background. The loss of 6.9 million lives in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlightedthat there is a critical need for simple, affordable, and scalable tools to detectnew emerging

5 Jul 2024: Sparxell. Sparxell. The next generation of colours and effects. Website. The Challenge. Glitters can take many sizes and shapes (from the sequins used in fashion tothe fine powder used in the paint of 1 in 4 cars sold in Europe or found incosmetics)

5 Jul 2024: Early detection of dementia. Background. Diagnosis at early stages of neurocognitive decline has major implications fortimely clinical management. We currently intervene too late and often targetthe wrong patients. With the recent approval of drugs

5 Jul 2024: Wearables for EEG monitoring. Background. Wet EEG electrodes that use an electrolyte gel to form a conductive pathbetween the skin and electrode to reduce the electrode-skin impedanceprovide a good quality EEG signal for only a short duration.

5 Jul 2024: Charged materials for CO2 capture. Background. Current technologies for CO2 capture are based upon organic amines orinorganic hydroxides, but neither is ideal. For example, amines are prone todegradation when regenerated, and are therefore expensive

5 Jul 2024: OSAIRIS: AI cancer imaging tool. Background. Starting radiotherapy promptly improves cancer survival rates and reducesanxiety in newly diagnosed patients. But before any radiotherapy can takeplace, the oncologist must spend a significant amount of

5 Jul 2024: OutSee. OutSee. Discovering novel drug targets using an innovativeAI genomics technology that uncovers disease-modulating biological mechanisms. Website. Overview. OutSee is being launched to take advantage of the opportunity to exploit large-scale

5 Jul 2024: Biophonics. Biophonics. Enabling widespread early detection of valvularheart disease with a unique medical device. Website. Overview. Nearly 2 million people in the UK suffer from significant valvular heart disease,yet more than half remain

5 Jul 2024: PredictImmune. PredictImmune. Helping patients diagnosed with chronic immune-mediated disorders to live normal and healthy lives. Website. Overview. PredictImmune developes prognostic assays that predict disease progressionfor patients with

5 Jul 2024: 360 implant to treat spinal cord injuries. Background. The spinal cord is a key organ of the nervous system, which is in charge ofcarrying information around the body. Every year between 250,000-500,000people suffer injuries to the spinal cord

5 Jul 2024: Real-time autofocus for videomicroscopy. Background. Video-microscopy of living subjects is hampered by their movement out of themicroscope’s focal plane. At video frame-rates, manual refocusing becomesimpossible; therefore, autofocus is required.

5 Jul 2024: Neonatal wireless transmission system. Background. When babies are in intensive care, they need to be continuously monitored.This requires multiple sensors with separate wires. These wires can becometangled and make clinical care harder. Parents

5 Jul 2024: MutREAD – Mutational Signature Detection byRestriction Enzyme-Associated DNA Sequencing. Background. The successful application of mutational signatures in clinical settingsrequires availability of a cost-effective, scalable detection method that

5 Jul 2024: Low-Cost Trace Analyte Detection with ReusableSERS Substrates. Background. To move beyond current low-cost sensors, towards measuring trace analytes inapplications such as healthcare monitoring, geology and mineralogy, pollutionmonitoring, and

5 Jul 2024: Mouse Models of Essential Thrombocythemia (ET)and Myelofibrosis (MF) – Available for PreclinicalStudies. Background. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have generated fully characterised,conditional knock-in mouse models for essential

5 Jul 2024: Implantable drug delivery device targeting braintumours. Background. Successful treatment of brain cancers is limited due to the difficulty ofdelivering therapies to difficult-to-access tumours. There is also a need for newtechnologies able to