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Supercomputer enables AI model to ‘speak’ better Protein
Added: 27 Oct 2025
A computer system used to study the vast expanse of the universe has been employed to develop a mac…

RGU secures £800,000 grant to drive clean hydrogen innovation
Added: 26 Oct 2025
Researchers from Robert Gordon University School of Computing, Engineering and Technology have secu…

Firm claims successful results for test identifying 50 cancers
Added: 19 Oct 2025
US company Grail claims that results for its new blood test suggest it is capable of diagnosing mor…

‘Commercial seeds could threaten native wildflowers’ claim
Added: 19 Oct 2025
Commercial seeds used to help revive meadowland and plant diversity could have the opposite effect …

Evident returns to focus on the small and scientifically beautiful
Added: 19 Oct 2025
One of the world’s best known photomicrography competitions, Evident’s Image of the Year, is inviti…

Choosing an appropriate digestion process for your laboratory
Added: 13 Oct 2025
Quality analysis with ICP-MS and AA/ICP-OES starts with good sample preparation and for this to be …

Uni receives quarter million lab funding despite widespread NSF cuts
Added: 12 Oct 2025
America’s Hawai’i Pacific University (HPU) has received a two year grant of nearly US$243,780 for r…

UK science institutions ‘vulnerable’ to political interference, warns report
Added: 9 Oct 2025
Leading UK scientific institutions such as the Met Office and the UK Health Security Agency lack su…

Immunology, quantum and MOF dominate Nobel Prizes for science
Added: 9 Oct 2025
Nine new Nobel Prize laureates have shared the three award categories for physiology/medicine, phys…

November 5 deadline for AMR innovators to share PACE £6 million
Added: 6 Oct 2025
One of the UK’s largest public-private initiatives for antimicrobial drug and diagnostic developmen…

Molecule demonstrates success controlling Parkinson’s-associated protein behaviour
Added: 6 Oct 2025
A so-called peptide switch developed by university scientists could offer a means to prevent the bu…

Laboratory News new issue: is science publishing too obsessed with citation?
Added: 6 Oct 2025
Science publishing has become too focused on achieving citations at the expense of advancing knowle…

UK’s rarest reptile takes firmer hold in Devon
Added: 29 Sep 2025
Conservation efforts to save Britain’s rarest native reptile have resulted in a 25% year on year in…

Scaffolding cells could be key to targeting diseases, says study
Added: 28 Sep 2025
Fibroblasts which produce proteins vital to the framework for the body’s cells and tissues could pr…

Huntington’s result 'could boost' ALS/frontotemporal dementia therapy
Added: 26 Sep 2025
Recent clinical success in combatting the effects of Huntington’s disease could herald wider advanc…

Research identifies a culprit behind cancer immunotherapy failures
Added: 21 Sep 2025
A joint UK-Finland academic project has provided new evidence about a longstanding cancer treatment…

Oxford’s example ‘could generate massive boost to regional spin-outs’
Added: 20 Sep 2025
An extra £15 billion in funding for UK university spin-outs over the next decade could generate nea…

Nuclear associations’ deal aims to foster greater US-UK exchange
Added: 19 Sep 2025
The UK’s Nuclear Institute and the American Nuclear Society (ANS) have signed an agreement to offer…

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…