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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…

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…

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…

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) …

Fulbright Award for CMU academic’s ground-breaking organ storage research

Added: 23 Jul 2023

An academic from Cardiff Metropolitan University has received a prestigious Fulbright Award to enab…

Depression now in Top Five most studied diseases in clinical development

Added: 23 Jul 2023

Phesi’s mid-year global analysis of all clinical trials conducted to date in 2023 confirms a shift …

Mass spectrometry offers means to assess protein ‘glues’

Added: 18 Jun 2023

Mass spectrometry can provide medical research with the means to harness protein interactions for r…

International Space Station

Pioneering Saudi astronaut completes space/earth experiment

Added: 4 Jun 2023

Pioneering Saudi female astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi has concluded a series of experiments aboard the…

Pirbright virus programmes receive quarter share of new £0.3 billion research funding

Added: 29 May 2023

Nearly a quarter of a £0.37 billion new scientific funding package has been awarded to one of the U…

Royal Assent opens door to gene edited food in UK 

Added: 29 Mar 2023

The granting of Royal Assent for the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act has finally opened…

Bids process to share in £3 million Cystic Fibrosis funds opens

Added: 20 Mar 2023

Applications are invited for a share of £3 million investment to accelerate the development of new …

Putin invasion has seen loss of two out of three clinical investigator sites in Ukraine and Russia

Added: 12 Mar 2023

The number of recruiting clinical investigator sites in the countries most impacted by the invasion…

Kind to animals, kind to plants… lab’s ethical fragrance

Added: 5 Mar 2023

Scientists funded by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) have turned parfumiers…

Replicating viruses work together to thwart opponents

Added: 19 Feb 2023

New research into the cooperative and competitive behaviour of viruses in the human body could help…

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…

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…

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…

UK’s second largest biobank eyes 1 million samples in first year 

Added: 15 Jan 2023

BioGrad is set to open the country's second largest biobank facility within a £7.6 million investme…