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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 …

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…

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…

Top brands and rising stars lead Lab Awards 2023 shortlist
Added: 25 Sep 2023
Many of the best known brands and names in the laboratory sector, together with rising stars, are o…

Work begins on Manchester’s £42 million specialist lab at Citylabs cluster
Added: 23 Sep 2023
Construction has commenced on a pioneering £42 million specialist laboratory and office workspace p…

Pistoia survey reveals AI is top tech investment for life sciences
Added: 20 Sep 2023
AI and Machine Learning will be the top tech investment for life science companies over the next tw…

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 …

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…

Relief from scientific community greets Horizon Europe deal
Added: 8 Sep 2023
UK readmission to Horizon Europe and the Copernicus programme has been greeted with widespread reli…

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…

100 Technicians share Hauksbee Award honours
Added: 4 Sep 2023
One hundred technicians working in a range of sectors and campaigning to raise their profession’s p…

Innovate UK grants £1.6 million to boost oligonucleotide therapeutics manufacture with machine learning
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Cambridge-based software company Intellegens has secured a £1.6 million grant from Innovate UK, par…

BDD wins £2 million investment to expand early phase clinical trials
Added: 20 Aug 2023
Clinical trials company BDD has secured a further round of investment for £2 million to aid expansi…
Siemens supports Indivior to set new standards with automated plant in Hull
Added: 20 Aug 2023
Siemens is supporting global manufacturer of addiction and mental health treatment medicines Indivi…

Tax crackdown heralds new R&D relief headaches
Added: 13 Aug 2023
Science research and development tax relief applications will now face an extra hurdle thanks to ne…

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…

Remote robotic tech ‘could transform medical assessment in high risk situations’
Added: 23 Jul 2023
Research at Sheffield University is claiming a breakthrough in robotics technology enabling remote …

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 …

Lab Innovations 2023 opens for visitor registration
Added: 10 Jul 2023
Lab Innovations has officially opened visitor registration for its upcoming event on November 1 and…

Pines and paper alleviate science's sustainable pain killer headache
Added: 9 Jul 2023
Bath University's Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability has revealed a sustainab…