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First female Chief Scientific Adviser Dame Angela set to assume role in weeks

Added: 23 Feb 2023

Newly-appointed Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) Professor Dame Angela McLean will take o…

Treasury opts for stealth to ‘announce’ takeback of £1.6 bill EU Horizon funds

Added: 23 Feb 2023

Some £1.6 billion in funds allocated for scientific research has been taken back by the Treasury.

A coordinated advance

Added: 20 Feb 2023

Deep virology knowledge, urgency and partnership form the crucible for rapid antibody development t…

Enhanced computer modelling offers improved training for trainee surgeons

Added: 12 Feb 2023

Modelling improvements have enabled a research team at Bristol University to refine the use of virt…

Scientific nesting places

Added: 6 Feb 2023

If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…

'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…

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…

Science reveals why Roy Keane's like a Rottweiler

Added: 1 Feb 2023

What does Roy Keane have in common with a Rottweiler? Physiologically, quite a lot – or rather a sh…

Medicines Discovery Catapult and SMi gain funding for ‘one second’ biomarker technology

Added: 29 Jan 2023

A project that aims to detect several cancer-associated biomarkers from a single blood sample in un…

Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Something for the weekend

Added: 23 Jan 2023

Matthew Partridge wonders where does a shorter working week leave that staple of the lab, the weeke…

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…

Virus

Aston claims genome breakthrough with computer modelling

Added: 22 Jan 2023

Aston University claims to have achieved the first reconstruction of a virus with its complete geno…

Quantum work ‘like turning omelettes into eggs’

Added: 22 Jan 2023

Microscopy and communications could be enhanced by adapting new techniques for improving quantum te…

Government aid for healthcare innovation trio welcomed

Added: 22 Jan 2023

InnoScot Health, the private body working with NHS Scotland to drive commercial innovation in the s…

Treatments remain effective for Mpox says study  

Added: 15 Jan 2023

Joint research by British and German institutions suggest that current drugs used to combat the glo…

Breast cancer studies top global clinical trials for 2022

Added: 15 Jan 2023

Breast cancer remains the most studied disease according to recent global analysis of thousands of …

The EU clinical clock is ticking

Added: 9 Jan 2023

With the 31 January 2023 switch to new EU Clinical Trial Regulations fast approaching, Werner Engel…

NASA awaits return of landmark space experiments cargo

Added: 8 Jan 2023

Samples from pioneering experiments into radiation, hydroponics and bioprospecting in microgravity …

Chemical sector welcomes REACH deadline consultation results

Added: 8 Jan 2023

Chemical sector businesses and organisations have overwhelmingly backed extension of transitional r…

LifeArc pairs with Euro partner to improve respiratory disease outcomes

Added: 17 Dec 2022

Life science charity LifeArc has embarked on a three year partnership with the European Multicentre…