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Aston-Warwick initiative wins key UKRI funds
Added: 11 Feb 2024
A joint team from Aston and Warwick universities and the University of Warwick have won nearly £2 m…
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Anglo-Norwegian study casts light on treatment resistant bacteria
Added: 4 Feb 2024
A study comparing the UK and Norway over two decades, has concluded that antibiotic use may drive a…
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EnsiliTech wins contract to develop ‘freezer-free’ global mRNA vaccine
Added: 28 Jan 2024
EnsiliTech, the University of Bath spin-out pioneering new methods of transporting medicines and fo…
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Knauer mourns death of founder
Added: 28 Jan 2024
Founder of the German lab equipment manufacturer KNAUER Dr Herbert Knauer has died at the age of 92.
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First ever Blavatnik award wins for Heriot-Watt and Innes centre as nine share honours
Added: 21 Jan 2024
Nine scientists have shared the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK and with it a …
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Cherwell joins global brand AnalytiChem Group
Added: 14 Jan 2024
Cleanroom microbiology solutions leader Cherwell Laboratories has been acquired by the German globa…
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Covid blow to Turing’s first year but positives too
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Britain’s replacement to the Erasmus Programme scholarships attained less than 60% of its target nu…
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Azenta’s Oxford genomics lab to open in March
Added: 21 Dec 2023
Azenta Life Sciences has selected Oxford as the location for its state of the art genomics lab open…
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AI responsibility remains in our hands, warns Ri Christmas Lecturer
Added: 18 Dec 2023
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for better decision making but the ‘ethical buck’ stops …
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Testing giant invests millions in connected lab
Added: 18 Dec 2023
Global testing, inspection and certification services leader Element Materials Technology has commi…
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Therapy ‘alters immune cells’ to fight unresponsive tumours
Added: 10 Dec 2023
Finnish researchers say they have discovered how a new cancer therapy can alter the function of imm…
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Aston mourns pharmacy school pioneer Mike Brown
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Aston University Pharmacy School has announced the recent death of Professor Mike Brown, who was in…
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Flower power inspires drug cell breakthrough
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Bath university scientists have borrowed from nature to develop more stable versions of proteins an…
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First phase of Oxford’s new 1 million sq. ft lab district begins
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Laing O’Rourke will begin the initial phase of Oxford North’s £700 million new innovation district,…
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BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre
Added: 19 Nov 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish t…
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Bioinformatician’s data protection work wins 2023 Einstein Prize
Added: 19 Nov 2023
One of the world’s largest prizes for academic research has been awarded to the Belgian bioinformat…
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Newly launched firm secures £4.3 million seed funding to target drug-resistant bacteria
Added: 19 Nov 2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company developing precision antibiotic therapies, has raised £4.3 million in …
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Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help …
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Attoseconds, quantum dots and mRNA secure Nobel science prizes
Added: 5 Oct 2023
Two researchers hailed by judges for their contributions to the “unprecedented” rate of vaccine dev…
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Second malaria vaccine brings significant advance in scale
Added: 5 Oct 2023
The development of a second effective malaria vaccine has been hailed as a significant step forward…