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As the Longitude Prize on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) shows, it pays to reward ideas
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Winner of the £8m Longitude Prize on AMR
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The burden of UTIs
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The global problem of AMR
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Origins of the Longitude Prize on AMR
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Expanding medical diagnostics for low-and-middle income countries: GADx, UK
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Amplifying samples to boost sensitivity of UTI tests: BioAmp, USA
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Identifying UTI pathogens to target antibiotic treatment: Llusern Scientific, UK
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A rapid UTI test the size of a credit card: Module Innovations, India
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Identifying UTIs in minutes, not days: Sysmex Astrego AB, Sweden
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Sepsis Awareness Month: Q&A with Dr Ben Morton
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Sepsis – The innovation gap
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India’s growing biotech ecosystem in the fight against antimicrobial resistance
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A Technical Read: Improved UTI Diagnostics: AST without Identification – Ready for “Primetime”?
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Ensuring access to tackle the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance
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Meet the Judges: Prof Hassan Sefrioui, Director and Member of the Executive Board at Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research
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Meet the Judges: Dr Direk Limmathurotsakul, Head of Microbiology at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
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Meet the Judges: Dr Tom Boyles, Specialist in Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine
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An Intro to the NICE Diagnostics Assessment Programme from Becky Albrow: what did we learn?
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Q&A with Jeff Featherstone, Head of AMR at the NHS
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The future of AMR diagnostics
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Tackling AMR: A high-level interactive dialogue
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One year of Covid: Are we ready for the next pandemic?
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The Brexit learning curve: 4 regulatory implications for Longitude Prize teams
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How Covid-19 has set back cancer care
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Watch Sprint Workshop 2: How to attract investment to fund product development and scale your company
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The Long Read: Q&A with David Gill, MedTech Investment Expert
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What we learned about navigating global MedTech Regulation pathways
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Q&A with Robyn Meurant, IVD Regulations Expert, NSF International
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UK tests ‘Netflix Subscription Model’ for new antibiotic drugs
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CARB-X awards $3.2m to Longitude Prize contender, Module Innovations
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The Long Read: We must do better for UTI patients
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Can we target antibiotics better for urine infections?
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Education: future proofing antibiotic use
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Antibiotic Pioneers: Elizabeth Lee Hazen & Rachel Fuller Brown
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Antibiotic Pioneers: Paul Ehrlich
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Antibiotic Pioneers: George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion
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Antibiotic Pioneers: Howard Florey & Ernst Chain
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Antibiotic Pioneers: Alexander Fleming
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Antibiotic Pioneers: Gerhard Domagk
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Why are doctors worried about antibiotic resistance in India?
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Antibiotic use falling but resistant infections rising: what are clinicians to do?
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Catalysing innovation and a feasible market mechanism for AMR through a new multi-stakeholder investment fund
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Tackling antibiotic resistance in agriculture
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World Sepsis Day: We need a rapid test in the hands of doctors and nurses to reduce mortality
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Our innovators are taking the AMR fight to the front line
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New competition champions antibiotic stewardship in low-resource settings
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Live webinar for Canadian test developers
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Q&A: Drug-resistant MRSA survivor describes advocacy journey
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Q&A: BioAmp Diagnostics partners with Illumina Accelerator to validate UTI test
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Linking test developers to clinicians in the USA
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Adequate isn’t acceptable anymore with antibiotic resistance looming
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The New Normal: Life with HAI
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Indian start-ups focus on diagnostic tests to reduce antibiotic resistance
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Death by delusion
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Big news: We are extending the Longitude Prize
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Crafting the uncraftable: Designing “diagnostics”
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Q&A: Diagnostic advice for low-resource settings
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Sting: A story from Infectious Futures
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Sex, Drugs and Superbugs: Gonorrhoea and the post-antibiotic apocalypse
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Tips from Vietnam: Designing technology to reduce antibiotic use and resistance
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Causes: A story from Infectious Futures
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Antimicrobial resistance in Taiwan: What lessons can we learn?
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New funding platform launched to help Longitude Prize teams
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NIH-BARDA funding opportunity for rapid diagnostics
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A film on antibiotic resistance in India
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On the frontline of antibiotic resistance in South Sudan
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Challenge contest to spur antibiotic stewardship among medical students
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Have we truly considered the barriers to point-of-care testing?
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Collaboration funding for UK researchers to go to India
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Our team’s journey with the Longitude Prize
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They want to live too: A story from Infectious Futures
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Transmission: A story from Infectious Futures
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Everyone needs to be an antibiotic resistance fighter
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When the drugs don’t work, could bacteriophages?
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Congratulations Discovery Award Winners: Round 3!
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Ayanda: A story from Infectious Futures
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Mythbusters: What do you know about antibiotic resistance?
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Antibiotic resistance across Europe: E. coli, MRSA and Klebsiella
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The human element of living with superbugs
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Fighting for our lives at the Science Museum
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Diagnostic tests can help ‘Keep Antibiotics Working’
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Global Handwashing Day: Hand hygiene in resource-poor maternity settings
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How surviving septic shock changes your life
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Bacterial or viral: To treat or not to treat with antibiotics
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How antibiotic resistance is affecting newborn babies in India
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Congratulations Discovery Award Winners: Round 2!
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Lord O’Neill highlights importance of rapid diagnosis for tackling drug resistance
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Congratulations to the Longitude Explorer Prize 2017 finalists
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Longitude Prize: what do we mean by point-of-care?
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Meningitis Day 2015 – diagnosing better outcomes
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Are we on the verge of a point-of-care revolution?
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“Bacteria do not respect borders” – notes from the SDRI 2017 conference
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Could infection prevention stop drug resistance in its tracks?
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Kenya’s press takes on antimicrobial resistance
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Edinburgh’s international diagnostics challenge
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CATCH, the award-winning short film about antibiotic resistance
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Animals for antibiotic research: Is it necessary?
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Africa CDC Launch: Delivering the African public health agenda
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Living Labs: Helping health innovation work in the real world
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It’s in the genes AKA Genetic determinants of AMR and where to find them
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Longitude Explorer: The Internet of Things for good health
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2016, what a year
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The antimicrobial crisis in Latin America
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HIV and diagnostic tests: Aiming for undetectable status
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Congratulations Discovery Award Winners: Round 1!
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Data visualisation: Antibiotics vs. bacteria across Europe
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Is sugar the sweet solution to rapid diagnosis of bacterial infections?
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Do delayed prescriptions help reduce antibiotic use?
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Discovery Awards: Initial Results
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Introducing our new Prize Lead, Daniel Berman
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Innovations in hand hygiene
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Biology Week 2016
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Crowdsourcing ideas in science
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A milestone moment in global health: Drug resistance at the UN
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Chris Bond: From bacterial infection to gold medal
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Games For Better: A game jam on antibiotic resistance
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The NIH launches a $20million prize to tackle antibiotic resistance
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John and Joan Harrisons of today
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Biohacking: Lab science for everyone
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e-Bug: educating children and young people on hygiene, infection and antibiotics
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Game on at the museum
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Fourth submission results: Everything left to play for
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AMR: Behind the headlines
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How does AMR affect TB, HIV and gonorrhoea?
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EU Barometer: 57% of Europeans unaware that antibiotics are ineffective against viruses
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Looking for collaborator: Bearded Monster
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How the Longitude Prize can help realise the goals of the AMR Review
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Dame Sally Davies’ speech at the Discovery Awards Launch
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The Discovery Awards: Seed funding to enter the Prize
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Geneva Health Forum 2016: Creating sustainable innovation
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Horizon 2020: Prize for better use of antibiotics
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International Women’s Day 2016: STEM fields
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Government of India and WHO host meeting of government, industry and public sector to tackle AMR
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New funding announcement and third round of submissions now under review
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The global threat neglected by the Sustainable Development Goals
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Creating incentives for people-powered health
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mariPOC®: First team from Finland to submit an entry to prize
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Longitude Prize goes to Tokyo
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Announcing the results of our last submissions as we celebrate our first anniversary
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The fight against antimicrobial resistance across Europe
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The antibiotics in our food
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Bring on the era of post-modern antibiotics
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Announcing new Advisors
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The gonorrhoea urgency
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What does the post-antibiotic era actually mean?
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Handwashing: A top defence against illness and drug resistance
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Longitude Prize goes to Harvard Business School
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Antibiotic resistance in China: Launching the prize in Asia
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Less than a month to go before the next submission deadline
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On challenging tradition to treat infection
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Better diagnostics as part of multidisciplinary approach to antimicrobial resistance
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Infectious Futures: Science fiction imagines science fact
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Global engagement – Teams from all continents working on Longitude Prize ideas
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Infectious Futures – Stories of the post-antibiotic apocalypse
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CO-ADD – Global search for next antibiotic
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First Longitude Prize submissions received to tackle antibiotic resistance by Tamar Ghosh, Longitude Prize
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Longitude Prize – technologies that rise to the challenge of resistance, by Roger Highfield
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Announcing Ramanan Laxminarayan as the newest adviser to join the Longitude Prize
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Introducing our partnership with Antibiotic Action
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Longitude Event – Highlights of ‘What makes a Winner?’
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Longitude Prize comes to Northern Ireland 28 May 2015 – sign up now!
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AMR Cross-Council Initiative: New funding call
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First assessment window closing in two weeks
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Gather Your Allies, Engage in Unorthodox Thinking – 300 Year Old Lessons in Innovation
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How are diagnostics making a difference to healthcare?
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Longitude Prize: What makes a winner? Event at the London Science Museum
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Horizon 2020: €1m Prize for antibiotic resistance
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Can Scotland win the Longitude Prize?
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Antibiotics and cancer: a personal story for World Cancer Day 2015
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Art and Science: How collaboration could lead to a winner for Longitude Prize
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Watch: How do bacteria resist antibiotics?
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Antibiotic Resistance: why the fuss and what simple actions can everyone take?
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Insuring the world against antibiotic resistance
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Longitude Prize featured in New Dehli Newspaper
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New ways to tackle antibiotic resistance – Bacteriophage therapies
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Enter the Longitude Prize
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Answering questions about antibiotics for the fast and the curious
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Longitude Prize and Chennai Declaration: Partners in the war against bacteria
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Global Handwashing Day 2014
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Longitude Prize: A Thank you
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Baron Peter Piot joins the Longitude Committee
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An Overview of Antibiotics
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Appropriate antibiotic prescribing in general practice
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The British Science Festival 2014
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10 most dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria
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In the balance: GPs, patient care and antibiotics
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Changing our ways: protecting our antibiotic future
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Help to shape the Longitude Prize challenge
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The antibiotics challenge: why it matters
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How long will it take to solve the #longitudeprize challenge?
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And the winner is… Antibiotics
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Vote #Water
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Vote #Flight
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Vote #Antibiotics
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Vote #Paralysis
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Vote #Food
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Vote #Dementia
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Congratulations to the winners of the Longitude Prize on AMR, Sysmex Astrego!
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