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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…