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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…

Business spend on R&D improves for first time in years

Added: 30 Nov 2025

Company expenditure on research and development in the UK increased to £55.6 billion in 2024, accor…

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…

Researchers identify light’s hidden magnetism in Faraday Effect

Added: 24 Nov 2025

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem claim they have overturned a nearly two centuries…

Microwave tech turns clothes into wearable diagnostics

Added: 24 Nov 2025

Specialists at a Finnish university are developing a series of wearables that use microwave technol…

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…

Lab News in brief: seed funding, research citation, lead exposure, in vitro models

Added: 17 Nov 2025

University of Glasgow scientists suggest that a single gene is the biological mechanism responsible…

Resilience head says Lords life science report ignores training role

Added: 16 Nov 2025

The head of one of the UK Medicines Manufacturing Centres of Excellence has said a recent Parliamen…

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…

An alternative to conventional ovens and furnaces for your laboratory

Added: 10 Nov 2025

Conventional ovens and muffle furnaces are used daily in hundreds of laboratories for many differen…

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…

Heat, not light could shine the way for drug development, suggests study

Added: 9 Nov 2025

Drugs manufacture might be made speedier and cheaper if makers opted for heat technology in favour …

The cure for problem nails: a whiff of rotten eggs…

Added: 9 Nov 2025

Scientists at the University of Bath and King’s College London (KCL) say they have come up with an …

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 …

Sheffield engineers harness weather forecasts for industrial green energy

Added: 3 Nov 2025

University of Sheffield engineers are using the weather to time energy intensive manufacturing for …

Neurobiology trio honoured for 2025 Eppendorf Prize

Added: 2 Nov 2025

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre fellow Sara Mederos was one of three finalists at this year’s Eppendorf a…

Supercomputer enables AI model to ‘speak’ better Protein

Added: 27 Oct 2025

A computer system used to study the vast expanse of the universe has been employed to develop a mac…

RGU secures £800,000 grant to drive clean hydrogen innovation

Added: 26 Oct 2025

Researchers from Robert Gordon University School of Computing, Engineering and Technology have secu…

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…

‘Commercial seeds could threaten native wildflowers’ claim

Added: 19 Oct 2025

Commercial seeds used to help revive meadowland and plant diversity could have the opposite effect …