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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…

Space science helps target medicine’s ‘final frontier’
Added: 29 May 2025
Space pioneers have joined an international effort to unravel the mechanisms behind what they descr…

Nominations open for the 2025 Lab Awards
Added: 23 May 2025
The nominations process for this year’s Lab Awards has opened, with the winners to be announced at …

£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…

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…

Peptide breakthrough curbs ‘undruggable’ cancer switch
Added: 28 Mar 2025
Researchers have outlined a means to apply drug treatments to previously resistant protein which ca…

EPO: UK patent activity increases for third year but lags behind lead nations
Added: 27 Mar 2025
UK-based innovators have increased their patent filing activity in Europe for the third year in suc…

Further grant-aided purchase boosts AIME’s status as regional science leader
Added: 18 Mar 2025
Grant money of £1.5 million has enabled installation of a new mass spectrometer at Aston Institute …

Demand for EU critical chemicals law to ensure production of key molecules
Added: 13 Mar 2025
The EU must take action to protect production of nearly 20 key molecules deemed vital to industrial…

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…

Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer
Added: 1 Mar 2025
Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help unde…

Clock ticking for nominations for RSC journals’ chemistry lectureships
Added: 22 Feb 2025
Time is running out to apply for lectureships offered through two of the Royal Society of Chemistry…

Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects
Added: 22 Feb 2025
Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…

Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub
Added: 13 Feb 2025
Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than…

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 …

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…