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Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer
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Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness
Added: 22 Feb 2025
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Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects
Added: 22 Feb 2025
Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…
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Added: 22 Feb 2025
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New facial detection system claims 10 times better image resolution
Added: 16 Feb 2025
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Bath seeks cleaner, greener water option
Added: 15 Feb 2025
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Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse
Added: 14 Feb 2025
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Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub
Added: 13 Feb 2025
Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than…
Crafoord Prize laureates honoured for autoimmune disease work
Added: 8 Feb 2025
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Alga ‘superfood’ comes with scaling up challenges, say scientists
Added: 7 Feb 2025
A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultura…
Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope
Added: 9 Feb 2025
Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million …
AstraZeneca’s Speke U-turn deals blow to Government’s life sciences ambition
Added: 3 Feb 2025
AstraZeneca’s shock reversal of its plans to expand vaccine manufacturing at itsSpeke plant on Mers…
The Future of Lab Informatics
Added: 30 Jan 2025
What will 2025 bring in terms of lab informatics? How will advanced technologies drive new discover…
Liverpool team’s novel material promises boost to IoT storage capabilities
Added: 29 Jan 2025
University of Liverpool scientists have developed a novel material they claim may enable internet o…
Seven CERSI centres launched to speed regulatory innovation in UK medicine
Added: 28 Jan 2025
Innovate UK has announced seven Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSIs…
How automated tools can speed toxicology tests
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Toxicology assessments can be time consuming, but digital repositories and tools can aid the proces…
Global survey reveals trust in scientists maintained
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Results from a vast new global survey suggest that trust in scientists remains relatively high acro…
Gallium-based bone cancer therapy paste secures £110k support
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Grant money of £110,000 has been awarded to help develop an injectable paste that could have the po…
