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Are Covid-19 contact apps data safe?

... and work in a decentralised manner: you hold your own data at all times and it cannot be used for any data ... the other app users. All of the phones then search their own records to see if they have seen Bob’s anonymised ID before. Therefore, in this scheme, each person’s own records of which devices they have encountered before are ...

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EVE Online: gamers analyse COVID data

... industry, where you look at the markets, or you mine your own materials, and then you build stuff for other players to ... if this dot is a part of that cluster, or is it in its own cluster, or maybe that one, you get the idea. And the ... deeper way than if scientists were doing it all on their own. Ryan - We have really, one-on-one collaborations with ...

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Coronavirus globally: WHO plans for next wave

A pandemic isn’t a problem any country can solve on its own - after all, eliminating the coronavirus in your own home doesn’t do much good if it can easily return from ...

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SARS-CoV-2: natural or man-made?

... - that the spike binds to. Other animals have their own versions of ACE2 as well, but Nik’s work shows that the ... from somewhere; humans don't just invent viruses in their own bodies. So where did it come from then? Nik - One ...

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Viral vector vaccines: what are they, and how do they work?

... of the infection into the body, and then to rely on our own cells decoding that message and making the pieces of the ... take a virus, and first disable it by removing its own genetic instructions that tell it how to grow. This means ...

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Coronavirus: sex differences in the spotlight

... that can accommodate a potential foreign body within our own. Overall, women also seem to have a somewhat stronger ... there is no infection and you're actually attacking your own body, then it is not exactly ideal. We can think about ...

A pulse oximeter on the finger uses light absorption to calculate haemoglobin oxygen saturation.

Smartphone Accurately Measures Blood Oxygen

... oxygen levels may soon be measured in the comfort of your own home using a personal smartphone. Rising costs of medical ... oxygen levels may soon be measured in the comfort of your own home using a personal smartphone. Smartphone Accurately ...

Immune cells

Long covid & the immune system: what's going wrong?

Inflammation is a really strong hint that the patient’s own immune system is a major player in this 'long covid'. ... bad. Clare Bryant, University of Cambridge The patient's own immune system seems to be the major player in long ...

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COVID critical care: what we know now

... for using antibodies is, of course, that's what your own immune system makes when you have an infection; and if ... it will help to soak up some virus and bolster your own immune response. Have we not though seen something of a ...

A patient on a ventilator in a hospital.

Meet Scotland's sickest COVID patient

... only did the COVID attack every corner of my body, but my own immune system mounted what was called a 'cytokine storm'. ... journey? Grant - The book is really about our own personal journey of that and my wife and my family. But ...

A person on a video call.

COVID made us more digital at what cost?

... and from Aristotle to Confucius, they have supplied their own slightly different answers. One central idea is that ... bad for our wellbeing. None of these frameworks on their own can provide a perfect route to digital wellbeing, Dr ...

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Food justice post-coronavirus

... food system. 4. People must be empowered to produce their own healthy food through localised systems – Reinhold ... been exposed to the virus. Our inability to produce our own healthy and locally available food has left us to suffer ... movements give power to local people to produce their own healthy food. This bottom-up approach involves fighting ...

A globe lying on a facemask with a syringe stuck into it.

Why people won't trust DIY COVID vaccines

... properly trained to handle it muddling around in their own homes with no supervision or accountability. These are ... discovery of hashish, and the person then documented their own reactions to it, and so on. Obviously this sort of ...

Covid vaccine vials

Vaccine hesitancy: as old as vaccines

... pick and parcel the ones that are actually informing their own identity and their own experiences. And that can change depending on which group ...

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Can cats and dogs catch Covid?

Our very own Chris Smith took on the challenge... So can cats and ...

T helper cell

Coronavirus: T cells in patients missing antibodies

Our own immune systems follow the pattern outlined by ...

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Coronavirus economic recovery

... many European governments do not now have control of their own currencies – removing a key mechanism that governments ...

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Why don't birds get cold feet?

... when do doctors need to ventilate a patient, seeing your own brain by MRI, why sunlight is warmer in summer, and can ...

A team of doctors walking through a hospital corridor

Screening healthcare workers for Covid-19

... and to patients, and actually hospitals could become their own individual hubs of transmission unless we do something ...

A team of doctors walking through a hospital corridor

Hospital staff infected without realising

... and to patients, and actually hospitals could become their own individual hubs of transmission unless we do something ...

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COVID-19 and the economy

... available. So we thought, let's go out and collect our own data. Adam - And what have you found? What is the impact ...

A woman wearing a blue facemask.

To wear or not to wear a facemask

... Have you been cutting up old t-shirts to make your own? Or are you a nurse or doctor worried that supplies are ...

A map of the world showing hotspots of an infection.

How do we communicate with the public in the next pandemic?

... Committee on pandemics. So here in Scotland we have our own pandemic preparedness that we're now engaging in looking ...

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Analysing the UK's obesity strategy

... differences that require an individual to use their own resources. So they need to engage, as you say, with the ... tool for the restaurants to know what's in their own food so that they can then make it healthier or provide ...

A young girl writing with a pencil.

Virtual learning: the kids weigh in

... home, I do get to have play times, I get to play with my own toys. I don't have to change into my school clothes as ...