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Bioinformatician’s data protection work wins 2023 Einstein Prize
Added: 19 Nov 2023
One of the world’s largest prizes for academic research has been awarded to the Belgian bioinformat…
Newly launched firm secures £4.3 million seed funding to target drug-resistant bacteria
Added: 19 Nov 2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company developing precision antibiotic therapies, has raised £4.3 million in …
Record number of Lab Awards for 2023
Added: 12 Nov 2023
Industry leaders and emerging talent dominated the winners of this year’s Lab Awards 2023, with the…
Edward Witten wins 2023 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
Added: 12 Nov 2023
American physicist, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Edward Wit…
Bath puts safer water on the map via new OASIS
Added: 12 Nov 2023
A portable water quality monitor developed by University of Bath students aims to enable rapid dete…
AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater s…
NPL and government/industry partners launch quantum standards pilot
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The National Physical Laboratory has launched a pilot scheme designed to ensure the UK maintains a …
CGI signs three year Royal Institution Christmas Lectures deal
Added: 29 Oct 2023
The Royal Institution (Ri) has launched a three-year agreement with business consultancy CGI as the…
ABB and Imperial agree second decade of carbon capture collaboration
Added: 29 Oct 2023
Technology giant ABB and Imperial College London have renewed their longstanding carbon capture joi…
New map of UK 20th century land use throws light on biodiversity change
| Added: 30 Oct 2023
The first map has been produced that can detail how nearly all of Britain’s lowland meadows and pas…
Nikon photomicrography competition unveils more small world stunners
Added: 23 Oct 2023
An image of the common by-product of diabetes that causes widespread sight loss affecting up to one…
Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help …
First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imag…
Physicists say magnets offer room temperature quantum computing
Added: 16 Oct 2023
While quantum computing technology may have the potential to solve complex problems at an unprecede…
Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients
Added: 16 Oct 2023
Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged …
Turing helps connect swimming sperm with zebra stripes
Added: 16 Oct 2023
What is the connection between swimming sperm and the spots on a leopard or the stripes on a zebra?…
Lab Innovations urges visitors to access social platforms to enhance experience
Added: 8 Oct 2023
A growing list of exhibitors are lining up for this year’s Lab innovations Show at the NEC Birmingh…
Second malaria vaccine brings significant advance in scale
Added: 5 Oct 2023
The development of a second effective malaria vaccine has been hailed as a significant step forward…
Attoseconds, quantum dots and mRNA secure Nobel science prizes
Added: 5 Oct 2023
Two researchers hailed by judges for their contributions to the “unprecedented” rate of vaccine dev…
Deadline looms for seats at biggest-ever Lab Awards
Added: 5 Oct 2023
Time is running out for securing tickets to this year’s Lab Awards, in what will be the largest sca…
