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Fermenting resistance
Added: 24 Mar 2025
A study revealed that cancer cells that developed a high fermentative capacity became resistant and…
Further grant-aided purchase boosts AIME’s status as regional science leader
Added: 18 Mar 2025
Grant money of £1.5 million has enabled installation of a new mass spectrometer at Aston Institute …
Transplanted microbiota offers hope in fight against cotton disease threat
Added: 18 Mar 2025
A disease that has devastated cotton crops worldwide is being tackled by a novel method of plant tr…
Breaking the code
Added: 17 Mar 2025
Lab notebooks with cryptic code go back a long way, says Matthew Partridge.
A shared responsibility
Added: 17 Mar 2025
As World Health Organisation funding comes under threat, Hogan Bassey offers a reminder of how coor…
Megalodon's true shape sheds light on aquatic gigantism
Added: 13 Mar 2025
A new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica has revealed fresh insights into the anatomy of…
Design for lab-ing
Added: 10 Mar 2025
Product and marketing manager at leading lab furniture and equipment designer and manufacturer Tekn…
Banking on precision
Added: 3 Mar 2025
Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…
Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer
Added: 1 Mar 2025
Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help unde…
Letters of mark
Added: 24 Feb 2025
Professional registration provides a clear indication of competency and access to valuable resource…
Virtual reality, actual implications
Added: 24 Feb 2025
Digitalisation is transforming the nature of healthcare by sidestepping previous physical constrain…
Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness
Added: 22 Feb 2025
UCL retinal specialists received special permission to use a novel therapy to restore some sight to…
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…
Time to launch bureaucracy 4.0
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Laboratories have embraced the digital age. Isn’t it time medical logistics did the same to save re…
Novel interrogation
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Innovative research is essential to the development of new treatments, says Philipp Koellinger, who…
Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse
Added: 14 Feb 2025
They might be the stuff of horror movies but Egyptian mummies seem to have lasted the course where …
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…
Tell it to the spin doctor
Added: 10 Feb 2025
Despite being an internationally renowned centre of academic excellence, the UK is struggling to co…
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 …
Crafoord Prize laureates honoured for autoimmune disease work
Added: 8 Feb 2025
Darwin and Wallace, Newton and Leibniz, or Priestley, Scheele and Lavoisier – history provides nume…
