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- The Government and the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser have today (Monday 23 March) backed the UK's leading clinicians and scientists to map how COVID-19 spreads and evolves using whole-genome sequencing.
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- 23/03/2020
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- A proportion of the UK population will be infected by COVID-19 but non-face-to-face communication could help flatten the curve and shut the door on COVID-19.
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- 18/03/2020
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- The body's immune response to fungal infections changes when a patient is also infected by a virus, according to new research which investigated the two types of infection together for the first time.
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- 28/02/2020
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- A probiotic drink could become a promising new weapon in the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria, after scientists engineered a key genetic element that can tackle the genetic basis of resistance.
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- 16/01/2020
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- Probiotic drink could offer new way to combat antibiotic resistance
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- 15/01/2020
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- Rapid test for gonorrhoea and chlamydia to be developed by University of Birmingham spinout
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- 25/11/2019
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- Scientists at the University of Birmingham have unravelled the genetic mechanisms behind tiny waterfleas' ability to adapt to increased levels of phosphorus pollution in lakes.
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- 14/11/2019
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- Dr Neil Hotchin Appointed Head of School of Biosciences
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- 08/11/2019