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Fera Science launches £1million laboratory for insect bioconversion in York
Added: 5 Aug 2022
Agri-food and environmental science services Fera Science Ltd has opened a £1 million specialist in…
Oxford spin-out MiroBio bought by biopharma leader for £0.3 billion
Added: 5 Aug 2022
US biopharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has sealed an agreement to purchase the Oxford Universit…
Strathclyde tumour testing tool aims to boost experimentation 50 times
Added: 31 Jul 2022
Testing on solid tumour samples could be increased 50 times, say scientists led by the University o…
BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure
Added: 29 Jul 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure f…
Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’
Added: 29 Jul 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its pre…
Non-consensual citizen science?
Added: 24 Jul 2022
Russ Swan ponders the non-consensual extraction of biological information from public social images…
Aniline breakthrough promises cleaner, greener production
Added: 24 Jul 2022
A ‘cleaner, greener’ method of producing anilines – frequently used in the production of manufactur…
Genetic link between Alzheimer’s Disease and gut disorders
Added: 24 Jul 2022
Gut disorders may indicate a greater risk of suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, concludes research…
Younger men should drink one third of women’s recommended alcohol intake, warns study
Added: 24 Jul 2022
New advice on the health dangers of alcohol challenges popular assumptions as to which groups are u…
In silico study sheds light on elephants’ cancer resistance
Added: 17 Jul 2022
Elephants’ ability to combat cancer could help develop treatments in humans and also bolster conser…
Quanta’s dialysis system wins 2022 MacRobert Award
Added: 13 Jul 2022
Quanta Dialysis Technologies’ compact dialysis machine that helped revolutionise kidney treatment h…
Portable spectroscopy: Taking the spectrometer to the sample
Added: 10 Jul 2022
There are times when it just isn’t efficient enough to send samples to the lab for testing. Richard…
Arboreal anural amphibians amaze academics
Added: 9 Jul 2022
A study intended to track tree-dwelling mammal species has uncovered a surprise occupant in the bra…
Time for masks not musical chairs, health secretary told
Added: 9 Jul 2022
Incoming health secretary Steve Barclay has been urged to reintroduce the wearing of facemasks and …
NI trade row halts 115 EU research grants for UK
Added: 6 Jul 2022
The long-running row between Westminster and Brussels over the Northern Ireland protocol has led to…
Innovations in geodetics for environmental research
Added: 4 Jul 2022
From coastal landslide modelling to mapping geological hazards, monitoring active lava domes and bi…
RSPB report criticises poor regulation of 150 pesticides
Added: 3 Jul 2022
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has attacked current risk assessments for chem…
Turning drought into opportunity
Added: 30 Jun 2022
Mineral physics can help provide a solution to water shortage and its applications may not be limit…
Cambridge’s ninth fund underlines place as UK uni spin-outs investment leader
Added: 26 Jun 2022
Cambridge University has cemented its standing as the UK leader for university spin-outs with the f…
COP president Sharma hails Africa cold chain initiative
Added: 26 Jun 2022
Cabinet minister and COP26 president Alok Sharma has voiced his support for a UK-backed African ini…
