100,000 blood donors come forward for NHS
(Picture: PA Archive)An NHS Doctor has told Tech & Science Daily blood donors have been “absolutely amazing” in responding to a serious shortage of blood supply in the health service.
Dr Farrukh Shah, a London-based consultant haematologist at the Whittington hospital, said more than 100,000 people have come forward since the health service issued an ‘amber alert’ for blood supply.
She said the shortage was due to high levels of flu and covid-19 in communities, and staffing issues in the NHS.
Three environmental conservation groups have come together to put pressure on the UK government not to scrap some of its policies designed to protect nature.
The RSPB has joined forces with Wildlife Trusts and the National Trust to challenge what they’ve called a ‘government U-turn’ on protecting nature.
Katie-Jo Luxton from the RSPB told Tech & Science Daily there’s a risk that a lot of EU policies will be lost altogether, when the government reviews European legislation over the next year.
A research team in the US has shown that human brain tissue, when implanted into the brains of rats, can integrate and grow as part of its host’s organ.
The team at Stanford University believes the technique could be an entirely new way to study brain disorders such as autism, but the research has raised questions from some experts including those at biotech firm, the Roche Innovation Centre in Switzerland, about how ethical it is.
The James Webb Telescope has captured a new image of dust around two stars, which looks like a human fingerprint. Plus research finds signs of dementia could be detected nine years ahead of diagnosis, lab-grown brain cells learn to play video game Pong, a ‘Polypill’ could avoid ‘millions of premature deaths, heart attacks and strokes’, and are we treating digital assistants as if they are human?
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