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A lighter approach
Added: 18 Sep 2023
The drive to achieve sustainable laboratories affects all areas of operation. After the more obviou…
MRC £2 million targets hard to treat cancers
Added: 17 Sep 2023
Cancers with notably poor survival rates are the targets of a £2 million Medical Research Council …
Plants and particles win Turlings and Shchutska top Swiss science awards
Added: 17 Sep 2023
Biologist Ted Turlings and physicist Lesya Shchutska are this year’s winners of the the two highest…
Informed consent: Maximising compliance and minimising risk
Added: 12 Sep 2023
While the principle of participant consent is better appreciated in clinical research today than in…
Water, the source of (lab) life
Added: 11 Sep 2023
When it comes to laboratory liquid, there’s just nothing that can top the peerless H20, argues Matt…
Funding for vaccine to tackle cause of UK pig herds’ major respiratory threat
Added: 10 Sep 2023
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Biotechnology and Biological Science…
Relief from scientific community greets Horizon Europe deal
Added: 8 Sep 2023
UK readmission to Horizon Europe and the Copernicus programme has been greeted with widespread reli…
Nottingham uni spin-out secures UKRI £1 million for gene therapy tech
Added: 6 Sep 2023
University of Nottingham spin-outTherageniX and collaborator the University of Nottingham, have bee…
RVC’s Webster ‘honoured’ to receive prized Leeuwenhoek Medal
Added: 5 Sep 2023
Professor of Parasitic Diseases at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) Joanne Webster has been award…
Game Theory: Ocean Pods
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Leicestershire-based Molinarius Games has a water focus. So how does its Ocean Pods board game meas…
Cycling to zero
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Images of workplace pollution and waste usually focus on heavy industry but ignore the sizeable con…
100 Technicians share Hauksbee Award honours
Added: 4 Sep 2023
One hundred technicians working in a range of sectors and campaigning to raise their profession’s p…
Innovate UK grants £1.6 million to boost oligonucleotide therapeutics manufacture with machine learning
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Cambridge-based software company Intellegens has secured a £1.6 million grant from Innovate UK, par…
Low birthweight may directly increase later heart risk – study
Added: 28 Aug 2023
Low birthweight should be added to the list of risks for heart disease, urges a research paper pres…
Van Leeuwenhoek's rich legacy endures three centuries on
Added: 24 Aug 2023
He may have been a late starter in the field with which his name is indelibly associated but Antony…
Can science tackle ACL threat to women players’ World Cup success?
Added: 20 Aug 2023
The knee injury England midfielder Keira Walsh narrowly avoided at the World Cup has been identifie…
Tax crackdown heralds new R&D relief headaches
Added: 13 Aug 2023
Science research and development tax relief applications will now face an extra hurdle thanks to ne…
Universities share UKRI ‘s £13 mill AI for health fund
Added: 13 Aug 2023
Secretary of State for Science and Technology Michelle Donelan announced £13 million-worth of fundi…
Plunging research output holds back UK revival claims report
Added: 6 Aug 2023
The UK’s research infrastructure and funding system must be radically overhauled in order to improv…
Juvenile star is image of the year
Added: 6 Aug 2023
American Laurent Formery’s portrait of the nervous system of a juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata) …