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‘Smart IUD’ could herald accurate monitoring for fertility and endometriosis, say creators

Added: 28 Mar 2026

A smart IUD being pioneered by a femtech company could provide breakthrough monitoring for a range …

Infrastructure fails put science investments at risk, report authors warn

Added: 28 Mar 2026

The UK risks wasting billions in potential capital investments in science unless it improves the in…

Pistoia to publish guide to pharma firm social media listening

Added: 28 Mar 2026

The Pistoia Alliance is for the first time engaging health patients in its research, in order to ai…

Motor mimicry could offer insight into muscle conditions say researchers

Added: 21 Mar 2026

Mechanical motors created to mimic molecules that enable human muscles to contract could eventually…

‘Breakthrough’ claimed for sustainable reuse of industrial NBR rubber

Added: 21 Mar 2026

Two pioneering techniques for the sustainable use of nitrile rubber products as new carbon dioxide-…

CrossSense smart specs win Longitude dementia award £1mill grand prize

Added: 21 Mar 2026

CrossSense, the smart glasses-based AI assistant designed to help early stage dementia sufferers wi…

Quantitative analysis of microplastics in shellfish using pyrolysis GCMS

Added: 16 Mar 2026

Many analytical techniques are capable of quantifying microplastics and those larger than 20µm can …

Gut health issues ‘raise risk for heart failure patients’

Added: 13 Mar 2026

People with heart failure have 8% more chance of being hospitalised or dying if they also have poor…

Collaborators apply intelligence to create smart telescopes

Added: 12 Mar 2026

Britain’s Hartree Centre facility has teamed with one of Africa’s leading astronomical institutions…

Consultation measures support for fast track access to medical device imports

Added: 11 Mar 2026

Plans to speed up access to new healthcare devices by aligning regulation with the European Union a…

Product Update: Liebherr expands UK lab portfolio

Added: 10 Mar 2026

Commercial refrigeration specialists Liebherr have introduced seven high performance countertop and…

NMRC site provides first ‘terrestrial anchor’ for UK space manufacturing

Added: 4 Mar 2026

Work has finished on what will be the UK’s first in-space manufacturing hub, the new National Micro…

UK built detector components arrive in US for flagship neutrino experiment

Added: 4 Mar 2026

Four ‘building-sized’ components which will play an essential role in the UK contribution to an amb…

Bath combines biology and chemistry to thwart cancer drivers

Added: 4 Mar 2026

University of Bath researchers are harnessing bacteria to develop millions of potential drug molecu…

Ellison purchase swells Triangle’s lab space market but problems remain

Added: 1 Mar 2026

Oxfordshire, a key part of UK life sciences’ Golden Triangle region, had an annual take-up of lab s…

Whale research suggests older lovers may have the best tunes

Added: 1 Mar 2026

Declines in commercial whaling have produced a notable demographic change in humpback whale populat…

Stratech acquisition signals further expansion for Europa Biosite

Added: 1 Mar 2026

Cambridge Bioscience has purchased its fellow life sciences product distributor Stratech Scientific…

New owner welcomes acquisition of Laboratory News

Added: 22 Feb 2026

Laboratory News has a new owner, following its acquisition by the pharmaceutical and healthcare pub…

Cambridge funds revolutionary underground work

Added: 22 Feb 2026

Nature recovery programme Cumbria Connect has received funding from a key conservation group for it…

Phesi founder: digital twins offer potential for combatting rare diseases

Added: 21 Feb 2026

Digital twins are offering new therapeutic possibilities for diseases where the number of sufferers…