New facilities include super computers to track infectious diseases, airborne sensors to monitor greenhouse gas emissions, and a unique floating offshore wind testing lab. UK science facilities to be upgraded with £213 million government investment enabling researchers to respond to global challenges such as COVID-19 and climate change new world class equipment includes supercomputers in…
Winners have been announced at the fifteenth annual MediWales Innovation Awards, which celebrate outstanding achievements in the Welsh life science and health technology communities. This year, the awards ceremony took place entirely online for the first time, with guests tuning in from across Wales to represent the NHS, industry, academia, government and more. Many companies…
A Swansea University academic has helped draw up a landmark agreement amongst international experts, setting out the world’s first standard guidance on how people with diabetes can use modern glucose monitoring devices to help them exercise safely. The guidance will be a crucial resource for healthcare professionals around the world, so they can help people…
A Swansea-based firm has been supporting the fight against Covid-19 by supplying robots designed to sanitise a whole building. Evolve Raybotix has supplied hundreds of robots worldwide to businesses such as restaurants, hotels, cinemas, sports centres and offices, as well as clinics and schools. The UV-C Ozone disinfection robots map surroundings and use a combination…
Cardiff-headquartered EKF Diagnostics has signed an agreement for the distribution of a Covid-19 antibody test in the UK and Europe. The AIM-listed business has secured a two-year marketing and distribution agreement with Kantaro Biosciences, a joint venture between the Mount Sinai Health System and RenalytixAI, and manufacturing partner Bio-Techne Corporation. EKF will have exclusive rights…
A new animated video has been developed by Swansea University to raise awareness of lymphoedema and help patients understand more about how their condition will be treated. It is estimated that more than 200,000 men, women and children are living with lymphoedema, also known as chronic oedema, in the UK. Lymphoedema affects around 2 in…
Specialist manufacturer EKF has received two orders for Covid-19 sample collection kits. The Cardiff-headquartered business has secured two new customers for the PrimeStore MTM COVID-19 sample collection devices – Health Service Executive (HSE) Ireland and a national health body in England. The tests will be made at EKF’s facilities in Penarth and Barleben, Germany. The company said…
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