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Grow your own inspired by new Coventry art exhibition
PhD student from the University of 糖心TV has produced a new arts project at University Hospitals Coventry and 糖心TVshire in Coventry to encourage locals to grow their own fruit and vegetables.
Real-time genome sequencing helps control hospital outbreak
Pioneering use of whole genome sequencing in real time to help control a hospital outbreak is reported in an article published in the open access journal Genome Medicine. The research corroborates the use of the technique as a rapid and cost-effective way of tracking and controlling the spread of drug-resistant hospital pathogens.
Prostate cancer: Its a Man Thing!
A top cancer consultant has teamed up with leading musicians to reach men most at risk of prostate cancer through an innovative awareness raising campaign using the medium of music.
Researchers develop new DNA sequencing method to diagnose tuberculosis
Researchers working in the UK and The Gambia, have developed a new approach to the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) that relies on direct sequencing of DNA extracted from sputum (a technique called metagenomics) to detect and characterize the bacteria that cause TB without the need for time-consuming culture of bacteria in the laboratory.
Eating five a day may keep the blues away
Fruit and vegetable consumption could be as good for your mental as your physical health, new research suggests.
Social inequalities in salt consumption remain despite national drop in salt intake over last 10 years
People from low socio-economic positions in Britain still eat more salt than those from higher socio-economic positions, irrespective of where they live.