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Agar Scientific buys London Resin Company
Added: 2 Aug 2019
Laboratory equipment supplier Agar Scientific has acquired London Resin Company for an undisclosed …

Health data alliance adds eight members
Added: 1 Aug 2019
The UK Health Data Research Alliance (HDR UK) has added eight health organisations to increase the …

Imperial develops fluorescent artificial cell
Added: 31 Jul 2019
Imperial College London has created an artificial cell that fluoresces when it detects chemical cha…

Volunteer data to build new AI diagnostics
Added: 26 Jul 2019
The UK government has announced a volunteer programme that will support the development of new trea…

Alderley Park to run Japanese AMR therapy
Added: 23 Jul 2019
Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi is out-licensing its anti-virulence therapy to the AMR Cen…

3.52M scientific procedures on animals in Britain last year
Added: 19 Jul 2019
Government figures reveal there has been a decrease in the number of scientific procedures carried …

BioCity announces golden triangle accelerator
Added: 18 Jul 2019
Life sciences business incubator BioCity has partnered Oxford Academic Health Science Network for a…

Drug Science launches medical cannabis pilot
Added: 26 Jun 2019
Drug Science has launched a national medical cannabis pilot with the aim of boosting medical cannab…

PolyProx Therapeutics secures £3.4M for cancer treatment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 May 2019
Cambridge-based biotechnology company PolyProx Therapeutics has raised £3.4 million in seed capital…

Darwinian cancer drug project
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 May 2019
A new drug discovery programme with a “Darwinian” approach to treating cancer will be opened at the…

Medicines Discovery Catapult partners LifeArc for biomarker R&D
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2019
Medicines Discovery Catapult and LifeArc have announced partnerships to advance R&D in biomarker di…

First US based human trial of CRISPR
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2019
The University of Pennsylvania has announced it has started the first formal US human trial using t…

Mutation found in drug-resistant fungus
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2019
A newly identified genetic mutation in a drug resistant fungus may help in the fight against antimi…

Cannabis-based dementia treatment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2019
The first cannabis-based medicine to be licensed in the UK will be trialled as a treatment for peop…

Copper-rich glass for bone repair
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2019
A new treatment for osteomyelitis makes use of a copper-rich glass implant to accelerate bone repai…

New AMR strategy revamps drug payment model
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2019
The UK government has revealed its new action plan for controlling antimicrobial resistance.!--more…

Wasp venom repurposed as antibiotic drug
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Dec 2018
Variants of a peptide normally found in wasp venom could have applications as an antibiotic drug fo…

Electronic pill connects to external device
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2018
An ingestible sensor is able to release drugs and relay diagnostic information wirelessly to an ext…

DNA binding factor gives clues to the causes of MS
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2018
Researchers have identified a DNA-binding factor that might play a role in triggering multiple scle…

UK aims high for organ on a chip technology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2018
Several academic, industrial and regulatory biomedical research centres came together last month to…