New study reveals the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on other causes of death

Published on December 20, 2024

An international study involving researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has found significant effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on many causes of death across 24 countries.
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Researchers develop a way to test the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape

December 20, 2024
Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well as blood banking. The research is published open access in eBioMedicine - part of the Lancet Discovery Science.

Coming AI-driven economy will sell your decisions before you take them, researchers warn

December 30, 2024
The near future could see AI assistants that forecast and influence our decision-making at an early stage, and sell these developing “intentions” in real-time to companies that can meet the need – even before we have made up our minds.This is according to AI ethicists from the University of Cambridge, who say we are at the dawn of a “lucrative yet troubling new marketplace for digital signals of i