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Simulated trials for better real-world outcomes
Added: 10 Oct 2022
Improvements in technology, as well as data capture and analysis have increased the effectiveness o…

Professional rugby players may have greater neurodegenerative disease risk, suggests research
Added: 9 Oct 2022
Former international rugby players included in a recent health study showed risks of neurodegenerat…

Ukraine conflict leaves a hole in clinical trials enrolment in region
Added: 9 Oct 2022
Clinical trials in Ukraine and Russia have plunged by around 50% during 2022, according to the late…

Quantum, click and evolution provide Nobel Science-winning ingredients
Added: 6 Oct 2022
Quantum physics, click chemistry and evolutionary breakthroughs were the dominant themes for this y…

Knowledge is power: In silico modelling of Covid-19
Added: 3 Oct 2022
Scientific research takes time. But, as the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted, sometimes that’s a luxur…

Vitae Three Minute Thesis victor is second Kingston Uni winner in a row
Added: 30 Sep 2022
Bioengineer Sadaf Akbari beat rivals from nearly 70 universities across the UK and Ireland to win a…

Doppelganger effect
Added: 26 Sep 2022
Ethical and medical challenges combined with technological advances and improved data capabilities …

MND treatment offers hope for further research on disease variants
Added: 22 Sep 2022
Treatment administered for a specific variant of motor-neurone disease (MND) has reportedly been ef…
Single amino acid change could hold key to Neanderthal demise
Added: 19 Sep 2022
New research addresses the puzzle of why, of all the human species to have evolved, only our own av…

View Nikon Small World in Motion 2022 winners
Added: 12 Sep 2022
View the amazing microscopic images of the finalists in the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion video …

Kidney charity unveils competition for dialysis innovation
Added: 11 Sep 2022
Just weeks after a pioneering dialysis technology won a prestigious engineering award, a leading UK…

Sulzer acquisition to scale up biopolymer production
Added: 11 Sep 2022
Industrial giant Sulzer has acquired a stake in Netherland’s-based CELLiCON with the aim of scaling…

Polymer technology offers route round cryopreservation bottlenecks
Added: 27 Aug 2022
A Warwick-based laboratory team report they have mastered a technique to solve one of the abiding f…

Synthetic polymers offer means to bypass gene editing for biocatalysis
Added: 20 Aug 2022
Scientists believe they have found a way to improve the efficiency of biocatalysis by avoiding the …
Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report
Added: 20 Aug 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …

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…

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…

Creating places for people to drive life science
Added: 24 Jul 2022
While technology and collaboration has made it possible for many to consider giving up their commut…