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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…

Hearing pioneer James Hudspeth dies aged 79

Added: 24 Aug 2025

A. James Hudspeth, the American neuroscientist credited with discovering how the inner ear translat…

Protein inhibitor offers potential to counter advance of brain tumours

Added: 24 Aug 2025

Drugs that prevent the body from clearing parts of brain cells damaged by cancer could help slow tu…

Generative AI boost in battle against drug resistance

Added: 15 Aug 2025

Generative AI has enabled the creation of novel antibiotics capable of killing two highly drug resi…

Weight loss and growth hormone patients could swap injections for pill suggests research

Added: 8 Aug 2025

Creators of a new technology say it could extend the number of therapies that can be administered v…

Kennedy axes US$0.5 billion mRNA vaccine investment

Added: 6 Aug 2025

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced his department will terminate 22 government c…

China, obesity and biologics to fuel drug sales growth, says Evaluate report

Added: 1 Aug 2025

China’s bioscience sector growth will be a key factor in the growth of global prescription drug sal…

UK leads in Europe for life science foreign investment projects

Added: 29 Jun 2025

The UK was Europe overall’s leading European destination for life sciences foreign direct investmen…

Climate change is boosting soil-based pathogen development warns report

Added: 28 Jun 2025

Global warming is enhancing the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil microbes, wa…

Glasgow team wins £0.4 million to harness cancer-fighting immune cells

Added: 10 Jun 2025

Nearly £0.4 million has been awarded to a University of Glasgow team researching the use of immune …

Study claims mRNA vaccines carry lower GBS risk

Added: 10 Jun 2025

A new international study claims that mRNA vaccines may be associated with a lower risk of developi…

Mass collaboration produces benchmark recommendations for oxylipin studies

Added: 4 Jun 2025

An international collaboration involving 100 individuals from more than 70 academic institutions ha…

Call for biomedical collaboration as ‘window of opportunity’ looms

Added: 23 May 2025

Biomedical and health research body the Academy of Medical Sciences has called upon industry, unive…

Researchers get to the heart of organ development

Added: 18 May 2025

Advanced microscopy has enabled researchers to capture in real time the formation of an animal hear…

Mosquito project overwhelmed by swarm of willing citizen scientists

Added: 5 May 2025

Citizen scientists working with the University of Glasgow have amassed more than 700 reports over a…

Trials tackle if menstrual cycle contributes to women’s soccer injury

Added: 5 May 2025

Football governing body FIFA is funding Kingston University to research whether the menstrual cycle…

PacBio to partner ‘first ever’ North African based dementia study

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Biotechnology company PacBio is to be a partner in a project to address the under representation of…

£10 million approved for Liverpool LSTM’s AI Level 3 labs suite

Added: 27 Apr 2025

Funding of £10 million has been cleared for AI powered robotic laboratories to be provided to Liver…