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NIHR Invention for Innovation Award: Precise Detection of High-Risk Chronic Liver Disease using Diamond Quantum Sensing

  We have been awarded NIHR funding for a diamond quantum-sensing diagnostic approach to identify individuals at a high risk of complications with Chronic liver disease (CLD). CLD is characterised by progressive liver fibrosis, advancing from mild to severe stages and ultimately leading to cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer. CLD is estimated to impose an annual economic burden of £3.5 billion in direct care and exceeds £17 billion total burden on the UK economy. 10–30% of individuals with CLD progress to cirrhosis, of these, approximately 5% develop liver failure, liver cancer or other major complications . Currently, there are no reliable tools to predict which patients will develop progressive fibrosis or which individuals with cirrhosis will experience complications.  Our collaboration combines expertise from  Dr. Aloysious Aravinthan (Clinical GI specialist), Prof. Melissa Mather (Quantum Diamonds Engineer), Prof. Mark Fromhold (Physicist -Magnetic fields) and ...
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Spiegel-TV Documentary Team visit us in Sutton Bonington

 We had a team come to Nottingham to make a documentary which will include our interest in Icefish. A whole day of filming, an interesting experience and just a very lovely group of people to work with. I will post an update once the documentary is finished.
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Exhibition hanging and opening - DH Lawrence Birthplace Museum

 The exhibition summarises a number of life drawing sessions held by Janet Shipton ' Painting with Mr. P '. A number of the artists and even the model 'sitters' are affected by Parkinson's disease.  For me it was a chance to see the birthplace museum and have my sketches exhibited for the first time! At 4pm we had a preview with invited important people and this included the lab group and our collaborator Melissa Mather. It was all very inspirational! Alex Bhatti, Jacob Reed, Mel Mather, Me Janet Shipton hanging the paintings.
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Our new life-drawing exhibition at the DH Lawrence Birthplace Museum

 
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Immuno-Southern Blot assay - New article in Epigenetics reports!

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Bovine adipose mitochondrial adaptation and a potential lactate–ketone toggle in early lactation

  Congratulations to Nial for his dedication and hard work to publish his research in precisely the field he is most interested in . Nial pursued his PhD to find out more about the metabolism of the dairy cow and this is an important contribution to the collective knowledge on mitochondrial adaptation in response to lactation.
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Scientists visit from Manchester University and The National Physics Laboratory

  We had a great meeting about testing the effect of magnetic fields in mitochondria with Adam Bradlaugh (Manchester) and Alex Jones (NPL), Jacob Reed,  Melissa Mather from UoN Engineering (behind the camera!) and Mark Fromhold from UoN Physics (not pictured). Our magnetic shield was the subject of all attention in the lab. We had excellent discussions and now have a plan to start to work together.
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