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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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

New body aims to deliver on chemicals sector green pledge

Added: 8 Dec 2024

A new body designed to speed the transition to sustainable chemicals and materials in the UK has be…

British Heart Foundation Heart Hero Awards highlight breakthrough pioneers

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Cardiovascular research pioneer professor Adam Greenstein has been awarded the prestigious Research…

Cell detectives offer clues to counter rheumatoid arthritis flare-ups 

Added: 1 Dec 2024

The body’s ‘cell detectives’ could be employed as biomarkers for one of the world’s most widespread…

Birmingham cell science initiative promises cross-application testing

Added: 27 Oct 2024

University of Birmingham Enterprise announces the launch of a new division, Biocell Energetics, to …

Roche survey reveals global ignorance of HPV-cervical cancer link

Added: 8 Oct 2024

Around one in two respondents to a multi-country survey had little or no knowledge of the role of H…

Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research

Added: 8 Sep 2024

The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has b…