Undergraduate student completes successful 8-week final year research project in collaboration with clinical virologists at William Harvey Hospital, Ashford Carmen Ma has used PCR and … Read more
Tag: immunology
Work to develop a coronavirus vaccine and diagnostic reagents
Researchers in the School of Biosciences are working to help generate a vaccine against coronavirus and at the same time are also providing support to … Read more
Help with the fight against COVID-19
The School of Biosciences is supporting Kent hospitals to increase the number of coronavirus tests that can be carried out each day. The School of … Read more
Newly discovered Ebolavirus may not cause severe disease in humans
Researchers from the University’s School of Biosciences have provided evidence that a newly discovered Ebolavirus may not be as deadly as other species to humans. … Read more
Hands-on experience of genome editing
Genome editing is a revolutionary area of modern science. For many of our MSc students, gaining experience of these emerging techniques is one of the … Read more
Diagnosing sleeping sickness with a £1 test
Researchers in the School of Biosciences have developed a simple and cost-effective test to diagnose sleeping sickness, a disease widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. The test … Read more
Improving the lives of cancer patients with a simple strategy
Researchers from the School of Biosciences have helped develop a new standard of care for cancer patients who need to have their voice-boxes replaced, vastly … Read more
Scientists find new cultivation system to battle parasite causing diarrhoea
Research led by Dr. Anastasios Tsaousis and Prof. Martin Michaelis of the School of Biosciences has established the first long-term cultivation system for Cryptosporidium at … Read more
Bioscientists fight against parasite that causes diarrhoea in young children
Bioscientists at Kent are to take up the fight against the parasite that causes diarrhoea in young children with funding from Grand Challenges Explorations, … Read more
Bioscientists help throat cancer patients speak again
Patients who cannot speak following the replacement of their own ‘voice box’ with a silicone version are … Read more