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Three nation European partnership to advance heart disease treatment

Added: 24 Mar 2024

The British Heart Foundation (BHF), Dutch Heart Foundation (DHF) and German Centre for Cardiovascul…

Identity crisis?

Added: 18 Mar 2024

When the Royal Society of Chemistry began to tackle the barriers to disabled entrants to the profes…

Scots biotech labs receive vital scale-up boost

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Scottish bio-based business will be able to access a state-of-the-art fermenter vital to develop pr…

The far horizon

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Innovate UK has gone public this year with the research for its list of the top 50 emerging technol…

Pharma/life science survey response deals blow to Sunak’s overtures

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s efforts to put life science investment at the heart of the UK’s econom…

Unravelling the secrets of RNA

Added: 4 Mar 2024

Advancing scientific knowledge of plant structures not only improves crop yields but also helps tre…

Farm to gutter: Genomic surveillance to track AMR

Added: 4 Mar 2024

Governments are waking up to the dangers presented by antimicrobial resistance but the focus on cli…

Private R&D investment fall prompts pre-Budget call for action

Added: 3 Mar 2024

In a statement timed ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget, the chief executive of the Na…

Radio waves offer gentler and more efficient way to alter bacteria DNA

Added: 3 Mar 2024

Radio waves have been successfully harnessed to provide a less traumatic means to alter the DNA of …

Jellyfish inspire fast forensics fingerprint breakthrough

Added: 3 Mar 2024

A new water soluble, non-toxic fluorescent spray that renders fingerprints visible in 10 seconds is…

‘Potash price rise undermines global food security’ warning

Added: 25 Feb 2024

Rising prices for potash across the globe are creating a threat to the level of global food securit…

Nine in 10 life scientists surveyed don’t understand US or European AI rules

Added: 25 Feb 2024

Just 9% of life science professionals polled say they understand either EU or US laws on the use of…

Modern drug discovery

Gates Foundation grant opens door to PhaSER project acceleration

Added: 25 Feb 2024

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted Edinburgh’s PhaSER Biomedical a US$2.3 million gran…

Stat… fact… friction?

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Do the figures speak for themselves? Rarely, warns Russ Swan.

Million dollar beep

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Digital hackers may be the bigger threat but don’t overlook the need for safeguards against more co…

UKSA £7.4 mill funds UK universities’ role in global space race

Added: 19 Feb 2024

UK Space Agency funding will enable university based scientists to be involved in a raft internatio…

Memory deterioration prevented in animal model of Alzheimer’s

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Suppressing neuronal activity in the part of the brain that regulates sleep can prevent memory dete…

Report underlines economic returns on public investment in science

Added: 11 Feb 2024

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council-commissioned research estimates that the org…

Aston-Warwick initiative wins key UKRI funds

Added: 11 Feb 2024

A joint team from Aston and Warwick universities and the University of Warwick have won nearly £2 m…

Keep it clean

Added: 5 Feb 2024

Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…