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Phase 2 trials underway for new pneumococcal disease vaccine
Added: 15 Sep 2025
Trials are underway on a £3.2 million-funded new vaccine to tackle the presence pneumococcal diseas…
ABPI and NCUB: lack of competitiveness undermining UK life sciences
Added: 14 Sep 2025
Britain’s place as a global leader in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors has plunged in r…
Durham takes quality control ITERations to a new level
Added: 14 Sep 2025
One of the biggest quality checks ever attempted on superconducting materials has been completed by…
AI claims another job: robot choreographer
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Lab produced algorithms may have solved a key challenge for today’s automated factories and might f…
Psychedelics compounds used to combat inflammatory conditions
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Birmingham researchers aim to establish whether psychedelic drugs can be harnessed to combat neurod…
Spin-out’s £10 million aims to replace 10 billion single use plastic items
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Cambridge university spin-out Xampla has won investment worth millions to enable it to develop plan…
Chemical ‘LEGO’ hints at life’s origins
Added: 1 Sep 2025
Scientists have succeeded in linking amino acids with ribonucleic acid (RNA) to suggest how the pai…
Protein inhibitor offers potential to counter advance of brain tumours
Added: 24 Aug 2025
Drugs that prevent the body from clearing parts of brain cells damaged by cancer could help slow tu…
Hearing pioneer James Hudspeth dies aged 79
Added: 24 Aug 2025
A. James Hudspeth, the American neuroscientist credited with discovering how the inner ear translat…
Graphene ‘cleanroom’ raises the game for quantum research
Added: 24 Aug 2025
Scientists have created what they say is the cleanest graphene ever produced, possibly paving the w…
Graphite innovation for nuclear sector wins £13 million
Added: 16 Aug 2025
A scheme to support Britain’s nuclear industry through the development of sustainable graphite supp…
Phone tech to shine a light on Brazil’s pesticide problem
Added: 15 Aug 2025
Fluorescent light used in TV and mobile phone screens is being employed in a new capacity – as a pe…
Generative AI boost in battle against drug resistance
Added: 15 Aug 2025
Generative AI has enabled the creation of novel antibiotics capable of killing two highly drug resi…
Double dose ultrasound delivers BPA water pollution breakthrough
Added: 9 Aug 2025
Developments in ultrasound technology have provided a means for tackling difficult pollutants in wa…
Weight loss and growth hormone patients could swap injections for pill suggests research
Added: 8 Aug 2025
Creators of a new technology say it could extend the number of therapies that can be administered v…
Kennedy axes US$0.5 billion mRNA vaccine investment
Added: 6 Aug 2025
US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced his department will terminate 22 government c…
Sophisticated techniques boost green chemistry credentials
Added: 2 Aug 2025
Structural flaws in certain electricity-conducting plastics may be responsible for limiting the mat…
China, obesity and biologics to fuel drug sales growth, says Evaluate report
Added: 1 Aug 2025
China’s bioscience sector growth will be a key factor in the growth of global prescription drug sal…
Parliament's senior committee claims UKRI lacks accountability
Added: 28 Jul 2025
Parliament’s senior select committee has called on government to impose tighter scrutiny on UK Rese…
UK universities’ international patent partnership filings top 100 a year
Added: 27 Jul 2025
UK universities and research institutions have filed an average of 100 patent applications with int…
