All Life Sciences
UK biotech investment plunges 60% from previous year's all-time high
Added: 29 Jan 2023
UK biotech investment for 2022 dropped from the previous year’s all-time record, reveals the latest…
Judges announced for £4 million Longitude Prize for AI-assisted dementia technology
Added: 23 Jan 2023
Leading figures from academia, charities and medical institutions are among the judges chosen for t…
UK’s second largest biobank eyes 1 million samples in first year
Added: 15 Jan 2023
BioGrad is set to open the country's second largest biobank facility within a £7.6 million investme…
UK poised to be world-leading lab-grown meat producer, claims patent firm
Added: 17 Dec 2022
The United Kingdom is on course to play a major international role in the development of lab-grown …
Discovery Park unveils scheme to grow job opportunities 100% in a decade
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Discovery Park plans to double the number of jobs it provides to around 7,000 over the next decade.…
Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images i…
Start-up raises £0.5 million-plus towards hard tumour immunotherapy goal
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Start-up Neobe Therapeutics has raised £520K towards financing its endeavours to reduce barriers to…
Birmingham Uni institute’s Arlt to be new MRC London Institute Director
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Award-winning clinical endocrinologist Professor Wiebke Arlt will be the new Director of the Medica…
The final frontier
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Sustainability goals in science must include one untilrecently overlooked issue: lab space and the …
Biotech innovators honoured at OBN 2022
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Rising stars of the biotech world were once again thrown in the spotlight at the annual OBN awards …
Swiss-UK deal eases EU Horizon disappointments
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Britain and Switzerland have sealed an agreement for collaboration on research and innovation proje…
Health data project appeals for 5 million UK volunteers
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Five million UK adults are being invited to participate in one of the largest and most ambitious he…
NHS unveils ‘ground breaking' non-invasive epilepsy treatment
Added: 24 Oct 2022
NHS leaders have hailed as ‘ground breaking’ a new non-invasive surgery for epilepsy.
How can AI advance laboratory research?
Added: 21 Oct 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making waves across industries, and laboratory research may be the …
Online games and brain stimulation offers hope for combating working memory decline
Added: 16 Oct 2022
Tailored online games combined with a form of brain stimulation appear to show significant results …
Nikon Small World hands awards first place to photogenic gecko image
Added: 16 Oct 2022
The three millimetre hand of a lizard embryo captured on camera in incredible detail has won first …
Knowledge is power: In silico modelling of Covid-19
Added: 3 Oct 2022
Scientific research takes time. But, as the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted, sometimes that’s a luxur…
Precision initiative offers £0.3 million for person-centred medicine
Added: 27 Aug 2022
Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (PMS-IC) has launched a fund offering up to £0.3 mill…
Polymer technology offers route round cryopreservation bottlenecks
Added: 27 Aug 2022
A Warwick-based laboratory team report they have mastered a technique to solve one of the abiding f…
Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report
Added: 20 Aug 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …
