Study charts the "incipient supernova" of COVID-19 through genetic mutations as it spread from China and Asia to Australia, Europe and North America.

Study launched to understand mental health implications of COVID-19 - The University of Glasgow is leading a new study, in partnership with Samaritans and SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health), into the mental health and wellbeing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in adults across the UK.

New research has found if healthcare inequalities in the most deprived areas of England were reduced, this could help save the NHS around £28.8 million each year in hip fracture treatment costs.

The research hopes to help understand the ‘hidden iceberg' - alongside the ill, the number of adults who may already have had COVID-19 without ever knowing they had it or with mild symptoms. There is highly likely a hidden iceberg of asymptomatic people who may have unknowingly had the virus before the pandemic started.

The 25 research projects are the first to be announced from the recent Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Rapid Response Funding Call (COVID-19) . Additional projects, from the rolling funding call, will be announced by the Institute in the coming weeks, demonstrating the University's ability to expand its research to address this vital area.

One of Cambridge's newest institutes, established to study the relationship between infectious disease and our immune systems, is leading the University of Cambridge's response to the COVID-19 pandemi