All Life Sciences

Biotech launches redox biology global award
Added: 8 Dec 2025
A Finnish biotech has launched its own global award for scientists specialising in redox biology, w…

Pistoia Alliance survey warns of ‘AI scientific content crisis’
Added: 8 Dec 2025
AI systems for scientific organisations are too often being built on incomplete or insufficiently t…

Warwick launches £6 million R&D space investment
Added: 1 Dec 2025
University of Warwick Science Park (UWSP) is to invest millions in redeveloping one of its key site…

New UK–Brazil research group to pioneer novel bone surgery paste
Added: 30 Nov 2025
Two British institutions have set up a new research group with a peer organisation in Brazil to dev…

UK’s nuclear material offers plentiful source for new cancer therapy
Added: 24 Nov 2025
Britain’s recycled nuclear material is to be used for the production of new precision cancer treatm…

Kingston study proposes invertebrate solution to decline of in vivo lab skills
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Invertebrate creatures could offer the means to tackle a life sciences skills gap, suggests a new r…

Lab News in brief: CGT Catapult, PacBio, Isakson Prize, Hartwell, Exogene, Swansea Uni, Metir, Berry Genomics, diaago…
Added: 10 Nov 2025
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult’s annual report reveals last year it worked with 70 companies on adv…

AstraZeneca and Bia Analytical dominate Lab Awards 2025
Added: 3 Nov 2025
AstraZeneca dominated a hard fought contest for this year’s Lab Awards at Lab Innovations, winning …

Firm claims successful results for test identifying 50 cancers
Added: 19 Oct 2025
US company Grail claims that results for its new blood test suggest it is capable of diagnosing mor…

November 5 deadline for AMR innovators to share PACE £6 million
Added: 6 Oct 2025
One of the UK’s largest public-private initiatives for antimicrobial drug and diagnostic developmen…

Laboratory News new issue: is science publishing too obsessed with citation?
Added: 6 Oct 2025
Science publishing has become too focused on achieving citations at the expense of advancing knowle…

Molecule demonstrates success controlling Parkinson’s-associated protein behaviour
Added: 6 Oct 2025
A so-called peptide switch developed by university scientists could offer a means to prevent the bu…

Scaffolding cells could be key to targeting diseases, says study
Added: 28 Sep 2025
Fibroblasts which produce proteins vital to the framework for the body’s cells and tissues could pr…

Huntington’s result 'could boost' ALS/frontotemporal dementia therapy
Added: 26 Sep 2025
Recent clinical success in combatting the effects of Huntington’s disease could herald wider advanc…

Three essential elements for science-fit Generative AI
Added: 24 Sep 2025
Generative AI will become ever more embedded within scientific research, the challenge is to keep i…

Research identifies a culprit behind cancer immunotherapy failures
Added: 21 Sep 2025
A joint UK-Finland academic project has provided new evidence about a longstanding cancer treatment…

Oxford’s example ‘could generate massive boost to regional spin-outs’
Added: 20 Sep 2025
An extra £15 billion in funding for UK university spin-outs over the next decade could generate nea…

Phase 2 trials underway for new pneumococcal disease vaccine
Added: 15 Sep 2025
Trials are underway on a £3.2 million-funded new vaccine to tackle the presence pneumococcal diseas…

ABPI and NCUB: lack of competitiveness undermining UK life sciences
Added: 14 Sep 2025
Britain’s place as a global leader in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors has plunged in r…

Psychedelics compounds used to combat inflammatory conditions
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Birmingham researchers aim to establish whether psychedelic drugs can be harnessed to combat neurod…