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An antimony-based LiDAR sensor chip seen close up being handled in a lab — Credit: Phlux Technology

7 December 2022

University of Sheffield start-up secures £4m investment to bring ‘world first’ sensor to mass market

A University of Sheffield spin-out company has secured the backing of leading deep tech investors to bring its revolutionary infrared sensors - a game changer for robotics and self-driving machines - to the mass market.

1 December 2022

'Smart contact lens' to detect eye infections

Using the new ‘smart contact lens’ could prevent deaths caused by fungal eye infections in developing countries

L-R: Professor Sharrack and Professor Snowden at the therapeutic apheresis unit, where stem cells are collected, at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

29 November 2022

MS patients could be offered stem cell transplants as a first-line treatment in new world-first trial

A world-first trial is investigating if stem cell transplantation could be used in patients with aggressive multiple sclerosis (MS) as a first-line treatment.