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Pre-term premature rupture of the fetal membrane (PPROM) is a major cause of preterm birth and accounts for 40% of early infant death with NHS costs £3 billion annually. Factors…
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Storytelling project for engineers and young east Londoners wins funding
A Queen Mary University of London project which aims to give engineers the skills to create digital stories about how their work can improve the world has received funding from…
Read moreBlown away by @TeamZoe who raised £165K for preventing premature births
Enormous thanks to @TeamZoe for raising nearly £165, 000 to help us develop a treatment for healing the fetal membranes and preventing premature births. We are hugely grateful to the…
Read moreOn the radio with ABC The Science Show
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/new-approach-to-avoid-pre-term-births/8975468 TRANSCRIPT Robyn Williams: And two women who did opt for science and, in a way, engineering, are Dr Tina Chowdhury, Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Anna David…
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Many thanks to Claudia Hammond at the BBC World Service for inviting us to discuss our new research at the British Science Festival. We have potentiallly found a way of…
Read moreBioengineering to repair fetal membranes and reduce preterm births
Below our press release by the British Science Festival https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/bioengineering-to-repair-fetal-membranes-and-reduce-preterm-births Reducing preterm births by repairing the membranes that surround a developing fetus may be one step closer, according to new…
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David Barrett wins the 2016 Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Young Investigator Award. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pd.5074/abstract?campaign=woletoc
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