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First ever Blavatnik award wins for Heriot-Watt and Innes centre as nine share honours
Added: 21 Jan 2024
Nine scientists have shared the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK and with it a …

Bath hosts new water-based public health initiative
Added: 21 Jan 2024
The University of Bath is to host the newest Research England Centre of Excellence, with £13 millio…

Bacteriophage therapies: exciting but not new
Added: 18 Jan 2024
Recent interest in this area of antibacterial treatments neglects the fact it has a substantial his…

Looking under the hood of AI
Added: 16 Jan 2024
Royal Institution lecturer Professor Mike Wooldridge expands on the scientific and ethical dimensio…

Fit for purpose
Added: 15 Jan 2024
There’s nothing arcane about furniture modularity, in fact it’s intrinsic to plans for creating a s…

Hearing’s the cue for wearing
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Feedback matters for any medical technology developer. When it comes to wearable devices, listening…

Scents-ibly sustainable
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Rather than plundering scarce natural resources, Glasgow University scientists Hua Wang and Sofia S…

Covid blow to Turing’s first year but positives too
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Britain’s replacement to the Erasmus Programme scholarships attained less than 60% of its target nu…

Modern microscopy identifies Dutch master’s £175k handiwork
Added: 21 Dec 2023
A microscope discovered by chance in a house clearance has been authenticated as the work of ‘the f…

Rudolph the blue-eyed reindeer, he can see the lichen glows…
Added: 18 Dec 2023
Rudolph’s red nose may be Christmas fiction but reindeer really do appear to possess another colour…

Testing giant invests millions in connected lab
Added: 18 Dec 2023
Global testing, inspection and certification services leader Element Materials Technology has commi…

Treforest explosion victim named as Celtic Food Labs chief
Added: 18 Dec 2023
The sole victim of the major explosion on a South Wales industrial estate has been identified as th…

Therapy ‘alters immune cells’ to fight unresponsive tumours
Added: 10 Dec 2023
Finnish researchers say they have discovered how a new cancer therapy can alter the function of imm…

Turning down the heat
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Selecting the right cold storage for academic laboratories is a challenge, acknowledges Rob Fowler,…

Flower power inspires drug cell breakthrough
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Bath university scientists have borrowed from nature to develop more stable versions of proteins an…

Game Theory: Viral
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Turner and Robinson embrace their dark side in Viral to play the bad guys.

One indivisible truth?
Added: 27 Nov 2023
The European Medicines Agency’s vision of a single source of truth for clinical trial information f…

First phase of Oxford’s new 1 million sq. ft lab district begins
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Laing O’Rourke will begin the initial phase of Oxford North’s £700 million new innovation district,…

Lab Babble: Swan’s Goosey gander
Added: 20 Nov 2023
Success is never guaranteed, we need to reward doggedness and chance, Russ Swan reminds us.

BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre
Added: 19 Nov 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish t…