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COVID-19 Sounds: exploring audio signals for COVID-19 diagnosis
Update #18 July 23 2020
Cecilia Mascolo and Pietro Cicuta
University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, and the Cavendish Laboratory.
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NIHR COVID-19 BioResource: facilitating rapid investigation of variations in the immune response to COVID-19
Launched in March – just two weeks after the World Health Organisation labelled the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic – the NIHR COVID-19 BioResource is building a valuable data and sample collection.
16 July 2020
From HIV in Africa to COVID in Cambridge and back again: going global to fight COVID-19
Virus testing technology developed to work in Africa to diagnose HIV infections has proven new utility in speeding up diagnosis of COVID-19 infections in patients in hospital in Cambridge
19 June 2020
Science, policy & pandemics: diagnostic testing
Hear about one of the first academic labs to be converted for diagnostic testing from Professor Stephen Baker and Dr Caroline Trotter in this podcast…
21 April 2020
My COVID interview is now on the Cambridge University web site. They cropped the lemur out of my photo! Just see its body!
Tackling COVID-19: Professor Gordon Dougan
I run a lab in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, where we study antibiotic resistance and infections. We ...
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Scientists @cam_fight_covid and @CUH_NHS have been using genome sequencing and staff screening to identify outbreaks of #COVID19. This has helped limit the spread of infection within the hospital:
@EsteeTorok @igoodfel
@LabWeekes #genomics
Rapid genome sequencing and screening help hospital manage COVID-19
Since the start of the UK pandemic, when the virus was spreading between people, a team of scientists and clinicians at the University of Cambridge an...
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Opinion article in @guardian on science evidence supporting masks for population, and possibly why the UK government has been reluctant to advocate use.
Across the world, face masks are becoming mandatory. Why not in the UK? | Babak Javid
Across the world, face masks are becoming mandatory. Why not in the UK? | Babak Javid
The government’s objections to this seemingly effective measure appear more political and economic than scientific, says infectious diseases con...
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Our second paper on COVID testing and healthcare workers is now out in eLife. Our group is now slowly stepping back from testing and returning to their day jobs, including thesis writing. Important learning curve for all.
Effective Control of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Between Healthcare Workers During a Period of Diminished Community Prevalence of COVID-19 - PubMed
Previously we showed that 31/1,032 (3%) asymptomatic healthcare workers (HCW) from a large teaching hospital in Cambridge UK tested positive for SARS-...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Very happy to join the Stem Cell Reports editorial team, to help the publication of exiting new science and to support the stem cell field. https://twitter.com/stemcellreports/status/1273674331407745029
Stem Cell Reports would like to welcome its newest Associate Editor Ludovic Vallier, from the Wellcome and MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. He joins an international team of accomplished stem cell scientists and editors https://bit.ly/2APcabl. @VallierLab @ISSCR @martinperaJAX
ICYMI last week our latest #ResponsiveResearch video is out now! Find out how the Göttgens & Laurenti groups have been collaborating with colleagues across Cambridge @cam_fight_covid @CRUK_CI researching the immune response to #COVID19 using their expertise in genomic techniques. https://twitter.com/SCICambridge/status/1273626299580452870
Meet stem cell scientists Fernando and Nicole! In our latest #ResponsiveResearch film, they describe adapting genomic techniques to help colleagues across @Cambridge_Uni study samples from patients with #coronavirus to learn more about the disease. https://youtu.be/8-U4Qnb0wk0
Fernando and Nicole are post-docs working in the Göttgens and Laurenti labs at the institute and are working on this project with colleagues across Cambridge including @cam_fight_covid @CRUK_CI @MarioniLab
Weekly webinar on COVID-19 broadcast every Thursday at 14:00:
Weekly COVID-19 Update - Covid 19 Comms Dev
covid19.medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Sanjay Sinha @SanjaySinhaUK was interviewed on @BBCr4today this morning about the effects of #COVID19 on the heart and work being carried out by @LabSinha using their stem cell model to study the effect of Covid-19 on the heart. Listen at ~51:20:
Today - 18/06/2020 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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1/5) No stranger to disease outbreaks and rapid field diagnostics and sequencing, following a six month WHO deployment in South Sudan building diagnostic capacity, @lw_meredith returned to Cambridge as deputy head of our sequencing team.
#BehindtheLabCoat
Have you watched the @SCICambridge short personal interviews with #researchers, exploring how they are adapting their #research to investigate #COVID19?
#ResponsiveResearch #Covid19research #stemcell
#ResponsiveResearch
A series of short interviews with Cambridge Stem Cell Institute researchers, exploring how they are adapting their work to investigate Covid-19.
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Fantastic work from @arambaut and @EvolveDotZoo on the importations of #COVID19 into the UK https://twitter.com/CovidGenomicsUK/status/1270717849519026178
The latest analysis of #COVID19 genomic data provides a detailed picture of the number and sources of #SARSCoV2 introductions into the UK 👇
https://www.cogconsortium.uk/cog-uk-preliminary-analysis-reveals-the-frequency-and-source-of-virus-introductions-into-the-uk/