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AI to help GPs identify those at high risk of heart-related death
Added: 1 Sep 2024
An AI tool that pinpoints hidden heart risk in patients could be rolled out for GPs to use within t…
Heriot-Watt project wins £0.75 mill for alternative to painful cancer biopsies
Added: 26 Aug 2024
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are developing a new method of identifying cancerous DNA whic…
Scientists hijack brain parasite for new therapy delivery vehicle
Added: 3 Aug 2024
Harmful brain parasites could be effectively hijacked as vehicles for therapeutic treatment for neu…
‘Moon lander’ molecule caught on the move
Added: 28 Apr 2024
A combination of spectroscopy and computer simulations have revealed how pyramidal molecules are ab…
Birmingham’s triage seeks way round drug discovery’s ‘valley of death’
Added: 21 Apr 2024
Birmingham university has shared details of its drug development model, designed to overcome one of…
Report warns of crisis as Europe’s generic medicines reduced
Added: 7 Apr 2024
A recently published study that Europe faces a crisis stemming from a substantial decline in the av…
Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic
Added: 24 Mar 2024
A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style h…
Fox Foundation and bit.bio announce first Parkinson’s project
Added: 10 Mar 2024
The Michael J Fox Foundation and Cambridge synthetic biology company bit.bio have announced their f…
Gates Foundation grant opens door to PhaSER project acceleration
Added: 25 Feb 2024
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted Edinburgh’s PhaSER Biomedical a US$2.3 million gran…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients
Added: 16 Oct 2023
Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged …
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…
Scottish researchers seek to turn plastic waste into pharmaceuticals
Added: 30 Jul 2023
A new project led by Scottish researchers is aiming to revolutionise the pharmaceutical industry by…
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 …
