Health

An EU-funded project has developed an intelligent data transfer platform that helps researchers predict the demand for intensive care units (ICUs) during the coronavirus pandemic.

A new study has shown that green infrastructure, and especially trees, can help reduce the much warmer temperatures in urban areas.

How can we prevent disease at older ages? An EU-backed trial has investigated the effects of vitamin D, omega-3 and home exercise on the health of senior citizens.

Searching for new COVID-19 treatments, an EU-funded project conducted a supercomputing experiment to study the interaction of over 70 billion antiviral molecules with SARS-CoV-2 proteins.

Three EU-funded studies explore European kitchen cleaning habits and the food safety knowledge and practices of Romanian consumers.

EU-funded researchers explore the recent developments and potential applications of optical circuits that can be programmed by end users.

An EU-backed consortium will begin a clinical trial in Italy for an osteoporosis drug in patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms.

Failure to develop an HIV vaccine so far calls for a change of tune. EAVI2020 aims to accelerate development thanks to a platform dedicated to the discovery of new vaccine candidates. In its efforts, it even brought nine promising candidates to clinical evaluation.

An international research team has found common disease mechanisms in the coronavirus family and identified potential drug treatments for further study.

Aiming for a steroid-free future, EU-funded researchers are testing new eye drops designed to reprogramme the immune system of inflammatory eye disease sufferers.

An EU-funded project has found a novel non-invasive way of delivering drugs to the brain by using ultrasound waves. This should result in much greater accuracy and lower drug doses.

New computing and storage systems installed at a major European supercomputing centre have been designed to meet neuroscientific and other scientific research needs. One major benefit is highly interactive, high-performance computing that can perform extreme calculations.

How do researchers and research funders affect our views of men and women? EU-funded researchers answer this question through two informative videos that discuss gender and its relationship to robotics and human-computer interaction.

More high-quality clinical trials are urgently needed. A partially EU-funded review shows that while some drugs seem to benefit COVID-19 patients, the certainty of evidence in current trials is very low.

Coronavirus test results in under a minute? EU-backed researchers are developing a fast, non-commercial test that can be performed on-site with minimal or no training.

European Research and Innovation Days provides an opportunity for four EU-funded researchers to discuss how their projects are helping find solutions to the coronavirus pandemic.

New machine perfusion methods tested by EU-funded researchers have yielded better results for liver and kidney transplants.

Five European research and innovation projects received EUR 10 000 each for work that contributes to a better society.

In issue 84 of Research*eu, we interviewed Arturo Lizón, coordinator of the INNOPREFAT project on behalf of Spanish SME Monteloeder. Their MetabolAid product provides a nature-inspired solution to help deal with metabolic syndrome which affects around 25 % of the world’s population. When last we spoke, they were preparing to introduce MetabolAid to major markets across the world. We reconnected with Lizón to see how they’ve been progressing.

With an effective vaccine still some time away and the ever-present threat of a new wave of COVID-19, we are pleased to highlight the launch of an EUR 75.8 million EU and industry-funded initiative whose sole purpose is to accelerate the discovery and development of urgently needed medicines to treat SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.