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Analysis finds four repurposed antiviral drugs have little or no effect on patients hospitalised for COVID-19
4 December 2020
Repurposed antiviral drugs - remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir and interferon - to treat COVID-19 appear to have little or no effect on patients hospitalised for the disease, in terms of overall mortality, initiation of ventilation and duration of hospital stay. The interim findings from the WHO Solidarity trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), followed 11,266 adults at 405 hospitals in 30 countries.
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Do rats like to be tickled?
21 September 2020
Not all rats like to be tickled but by listening to their vocalisations it is possible to understand in real-time their individual emotional response, according to new research by the University of Bristol. The study, published today [21 September] in Current Biology, suggests that if this same relationship is observed for other situations, then it may be possible to use call patterns in rats to measure their emotional response and understand how best to improve their welfare.
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Bristol Cyber Security experts helping stop child exploitation
14 October 2020
Cyber Security experts at the University of Bristol are developing new technology to help law enforcement investigate child sexual abuse on the internet. The project will use AI to identify images, helping police to catch perpetrators and protect children.
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Handbook helps explain how best to combat misinformation
14 October 2020
With the current flood of misinformation and "fake news" undermining democracies around the world, a consensus document that summarises the science of debunking has been published by a team of 22 prominent researchers of misinformation and its debunking.
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Modelling of ancient fossil movement reveals step in the evolution of posture in dinosaur and crocodile ancestors
21 September 2020
Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) used three-dimensional computer modelling to investigate the hindlimb of Euparkeria capensis鈥揳 small reptile that lived in the Triassic Period 245 million years ago鈥揳nd inferred that it had a 鈥渕osaic鈥� of functions in locomotion.
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New multi-million-pound centre to protect citizens online
14 October 2020
The University of Bristol will lead a team of the UK鈥檚 world-leading cyber security experts in the creation of a new, 拢8.6 million centre to protect citizens online.
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Cameras that can learn
13 October 2020
Intelligent cameras could be one step closer thanks to a research collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and Manchester who have developed cameras that can learn and understand what they are seeing.
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Discovery of a new mass extinction
16 September 2020
It鈥檚 not often a new mass extinction is identified; after all, such events were so devastating they really stand out in the fossil record.
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Exceptional challenges of bereavement during the pandemic highlighted in interim findings
27 November 2020
Interim findings of a survey of people bereaved in the UK since March, led by researchers from the univerities of Bristol and Cardiff and the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre, show the difficulties and distress experienced by those who have lost a loved one, both prior to the death and in their grief.
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Zeetta Networks signs co-operation agreement with Bristol Is Open
12 October 2016
Zeetta Networks announced today [Wednesday 12 October] that it has signed an agreement with Bristol Is Open for the deployment of Zeetta鈥檚 NetOS庐 on the Bristol Is Open network in the world's first use of open networking technologies orchestrating a diverse Smart City network.
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