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Testing suggests 3% of NHS hospital staff may be unknowingly infected with coronavirus

12 May 2020

Hospital staff may be carrying SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease, without realising they are infected, according to a study by...

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What makes a faster typist?

05 Apr 2018

The largest-ever dataset on typing speeds and styles, based on 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 volunteers, finds that the fastest typists not...

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Opinion: Genetics: what it is that makes you clever – and why it’s shrouded in controversy

21 Apr 2016

Daphne Martschenko (Faculty of Education) discusses the concept of intelligence and the drive to identify and quantify it.

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Back to school (crop)

New index of children’s ‘school readiness’ highlights importance of family support

28 May 2015

The importance of family support on a child’s ‘school readiness’ is highlighted in a study published this month in the British Journal of Educational...

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Alzheimer’s test developed at Cambridge to be trialled by GPs

07 Sep 2011

Launch of first ever rapid, objectively-scored GP assessment to differentiate between patients with memory loss due to the earliest signs of...

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Brain scans

Test could detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier

16 May 2011

Innovation on the strength of a simple test identified in a new study would enable intervention before damage is done.

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Dr Sabine Bahn

Translating research from bench to bedside

08 Feb 2008

Recent funding of over $5 million to Dr Sabine Bahn by the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI) raises diagnostic and therapeutic hopes for a...

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