Monitoring mums-to-be
Newborn babies are unlikely to win prizes unless their mother is Michelle Fernandes. Her baby is, fittingly, Oxford-based start-up FoetoH, which is developing a portable wireless foetal cardiac monitor.
Frontiers of medicine
Finding effective treatments for cancers of every kind has long been the holy grail for research scientists. Drugs and therapies have improved markedly, especially in recent years, with increases in survival rates and even complete cures.
Funding at the cutting edge
Private Frazer’s famous catchphrase from the TV classic, Dad’s Army, ‘We’re all doomed!’, seems to have permeated the British psyche.Open any newspaper and it would be easy to believe the last trump is truly nigh.
Targeting cancer
It is said of some cancers, such as prostate, that you often die with them, not of them. Cancers and other diseases too, including heart problems, HIV and liver failure, bring with them wasting or cachexia.
Glysure monitor could save lives
A patient recovering from surgery or trauma in an intensive care unit (ICU) needs essentially three nutrients to survive and to sustain the body while it heals — oxygen, water and sugar.
Key to the cell doors
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that contains the instructions for the development and operation of living organisms. Each organism has one complete DNA code, known as a genome, and a copy of this genome is found in that organism's cells.
New kid goes native
The term superbug is probably over-hyped, but it is impossible to escape the fact that there is a threat to health from a growing number of harmful and potentially lethal viral and bacterial infections.
Wireless patient monitoring
Patient monitoring systems, which check and record various aspects of condition and physiology, are generally bulky, expensive and confined to intensive care units.
Growing business
Nigel Wild debates farming past, present and future with Cotswold farmer and BBC TV Countryfile presenter Adam Henson, his father Joe, and business partner Duncan Andrews
Not immune to expansion
The giant conglomerate Hanson once lauded its USA expansion with the slogan ‘a company from over here doing rather well over there.’ Abgent is a San Diego antibodies company from over there looking to do rather well over here.
