Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF
Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF
Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF
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A world research<br />
centre for nanoHealth<br />
is to be established at<br />
Swansea University.<br />
8<br />
• Researchers at Cardiff<br />
University have developed<br />
an analytical tool us<strong>in</strong>g<br />
chemilum<strong>in</strong>escence <strong>and</strong><br />
used <strong>in</strong> 100 million cl<strong>in</strong>ical<br />
tests per year world-wide.<br />
• The protocol for the controlled<br />
trials of drugs devised by<br />
Professor Archie Cochrane at<br />
Cardiff was to become the<br />
world-wide st<strong>and</strong>ard procedure<br />
<strong>in</strong> drug evaluation.<br />
• Cardiff University’s Bra<strong>in</strong> Research Imag<strong>in</strong>g Centre<br />
(CUBRIC) is one of the first <strong>in</strong> Brita<strong>in</strong> to comb<strong>in</strong>e the latest<br />
bra<strong>in</strong> scann<strong>in</strong>g technologies to order to pioneer advanced<br />
techniques capable of mapp<strong>in</strong>g the structure <strong>and</strong> function<br />
of the healthy <strong>and</strong> impaired bra<strong>in</strong>.<br />
• Rapid <strong>and</strong> reliable detection of food-poison<strong>in</strong>g bacteria<br />
has been achieved us<strong>in</strong>g Picosorb’s magnetic bead<br />
<strong>technology</strong> developed <strong>in</strong> their north Wales laboratories.<br />
• over 25,000 postmortem exam<strong>in</strong>ations were carried out<br />
by Gower born Sir Bernard Knight, one of the world’s<br />
lead<strong>in</strong>g forensic pathologists.
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