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Final Year student helps improve clinical test for HCMV infection in immunosuppressed patients

By lmr4 | 06 April 2020

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

Work to develop a coronavirus vaccine and diagnostic reagents

By lmr4 | 31 March 2020

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

By lmr4 | 26 March 2020

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

By lmr4 | 20 May 2019

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

By lmr4 | 22 January 2019

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

By lmr4 | 08 November 2018

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

By lmr4 | 19 October 2018

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

By lmr4 | 04 December 2017

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

By lmr4 | 02 December 2016

  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

By lmr4 | 29 November 2016

                Patients who cannot speak following the replacement of their own ‘voice box’ with a silicone version are … Read more

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