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Climate change is boosting soil-based pathogen development warns report
Added: 10 Jun 2025
Global warming is enhancing the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil microbes, wa…

Breast cancer tops clinical studies for fourth year as overall trial attrition rates rise
Added: 21 Jan 2025
Breast cancer continues to be the world’s most studied disease in clinical trials, topping all cate…

Imperial’s smart heart reading T-shirt nets £340k
Added: 6 Jan 2025
Imperial College London researchers have secured more than a third of a million pounds to enable th…

Smart spoon ‘restores’ dementia sufferers’ taste buds
Added: 29 Jul 2024
Loss of taste is one of the many symptoms of dementia and one that not only impacts sufferers’ qual…

Vallance assumes key science ministerial role
Added: 7 Jul 2024
Former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has joined the newly elected Labour administra…

Government urged to put clinical signup on NHS app
Added: 7 Jul 2024
Labour must include a clinical trials option for patients as part of its commitment to extend the s…

Human placenta map offers hope against pregnancy threats
Added: 6 May 2024
Pregnancy safe therapies for deadly diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria could be b…

‘Heartphone’ tracker could revolutionise disease prevention
Added: 14 Apr 2024
The popularity of the smartphone could provide significant advances in the rate of detection of hea…

Memory deterioration prevented in animal model of Alzheimer’s
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Suppressing neuronal activity in the part of the brain that regulates sleep can prevent memory dete…

DEFRA data share essential to pandemic preparation urges expert
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Non-healthcare bodies such as DEFRA need to collaborate more fully with healthcare organisations in…

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…

UK research teams share £2.5 million kidney funding boost
Added: 3 Feb 2023
Fourteen projects focused on kidney disease treatment are to share one of the most sizeable funding…

'A fifth of cancer trial sites enrol only one patient'
Added: 3 Feb 2023
Nearly one in five cancer clinical trial enrolment sites surveyed worldwide failed to enrol more th…

Judges announced for £4 million Longitude Prize for AI-assisted dementia technology
Added: 23 Jan 2023
Leading figures from academia, charities and medical institutions are among the judges chosen for t…

Science, in the cause of justice
Added: 16 Jan 2023
Dame Sue Black shares her thoughts on forensic science, its uses and limitations, the impact of mod…

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…
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…

E. coli K-12 turns 100 this year
Added: 17 May 2022
While not your most obvious candidate for centenary celebrations, Brittany Niccum explains why we s…

Winning collaboration for LIMS implementation
Added: 11 May 2022
Under pressure to safeguard its incoming student body from COVID-19, The University of Nottingham n…

Lab furniture design for health and hygiene
Added: 10 May 2022
Unlike cleanrooms, many laboratories aren’t ISO 14644 registered when it comes to air particle coun…