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A retinal scan

AI can identify heart disease from an eye scan

Published
Tuesday 25th January, 2022
Categories
Global
Science
Health
Technology

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can analyse eye scans taken during a routine visit to an optician or eye clinic and identify patients at a high risk of a heart attack.

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Retailer loans rare art to University gallery

Published
Friday 21st January, 2022
Categories
Working with business
University
Arts & Culture

Five major artworks have gone on display at the University thanks to a major loan by Marks & Spencer for the benefit of its home city.

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Tracking a city’s young people as they come of age

Published
Thursday 20th January, 2022
Categories
Working with our region
Health
Science

Researchers have secured £7 million to fund the next stage of the pioneering Born in Bradford study into the health and wellbeing of the city’s young people.

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A better understanding of foot-and-mouth disease

Published
Monday 17th January, 2022
Categories
Science

The imaging of vanishingly tiny structures created by the foot-and-mouth disease virus could one day help scientists develop new treatments for infected animals. 

Olivia Cotes-James sat at a table with boxes of LUÜNA Naturals products on the table.

Olivia Cotes-James: Talking taboos

Published
Saturday 15th January, 2022
Categories
Alumni

Named in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list, founder of LUÜNA Naturals Olivia Cotes-James (English Literature 2013) is improving lives across a continent.

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Unintended consequences of mask mandates

Published
Monday 10th January, 2022
Categories
Science
Coronavirus
Global

Governments need to be careful about the messaging around compulsory mask wearing to ensure the policy is fully effective, say researchers.

The earth as seen from space

Study reveals hostile conditions on Earth as life evolved

Published
Wednesday 5th January, 2022
Categories
Global
Science

During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more inhospitable to life than scientists previously thought, according to new computer simulations.