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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…

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…

AI enables vets to take cues straight from the horse’s mouth
Added: 21 Apr 2025
Two Swedish research institutions have developed an AI platform that provides a 'digital voice' for…

Genetic study suggests possible means to identify drug resistant epilepsy
Added: 21 Apr 2025
Identifiying ‘genetic signatures’ could enable medical experts to determine which epilepsy sufferer…

UK life science ‘needs 145k new hires by 2035 to maintain global lead’
Added: 9 Mar 2025
Biopharma and medical technology will drive a huge growth in demand for life sciences employees ove…

Universities’ trio share £0.3 million as 2025 Blavatnik science laureates
Added: 9 Mar 2025
Three university scientists have shared nearly a third of a million pounds in prize money as laurea…

Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope
Added: 9 Feb 2025
Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million …

Crafoord Prize laureates honoured for autoimmune disease work
Added: 8 Feb 2025
Darwin and Wallace, Newton and Leibniz, or Priestley, Scheele and Lavoisier – history provides nume…

AstraZeneca’s Speke U-turn deals blow to Government’s life sciences ambition
Added: 3 Feb 2025
AstraZeneca’s shock reversal of its plans to expand vaccine manufacturing at itsSpeke plant on Mers…

Seven CERSI centres launched to speed regulatory innovation in UK medicine
Added: 28 Jan 2025
Innovate UK has announced seven Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSIs…

Gallium-based bone cancer therapy paste secures £110k support
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Grant money of £110,000 has been awarded to help develop an injectable paste that could have the po…

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…