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Phesi founder: digital twins offer potential for combatting rare diseases

Added: 21 Feb 2026

Digital twins are offering new therapeutic possibilities for diseases where the number of sufferers…

Crick Institute’s Swanton wins US$1mill Sjöberg Prize

Added: 15 Feb 2026

One of oncology research’s largest awards worldwide, the annual Sjöberg Prize, has been awarded thi…

Our new edition: PhDs, biosimilars, Future Lab, ELN and more…

Added: 14 Feb 2026

Is the PhD still a good investment for a STEM career? The new edition of Laboratory News offers a p…

AI positive people may be more at risk of manipulation claims report

Added: 13 Feb 2026

People with a positive view of AI may be at higher risk of being misled by AI tools, claims a new r…

Scientists find sweet spot for tackling resistant pathogen

Added: 4 Feb 2026

Australian researchers have designed antibodies able to recognise a sugar present only on bacterial…

Wearable tech creates user-friendly sleep apnoea test

Added: 4 Feb 2026

New wearable technology developed by the University of Chester is providing fresh insights into how…

Survey suggests scientists view ELNs as ‘glorified filing cabinets’

Added: 1 Feb 2026

Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) are regarded by many laboratory professionals as little more than “…

Swedish researchers cite biomarker advance for early stage Parkinson’s

Added: 1 Feb 2026

Biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease have been identified by a Scandinavian research team, pinpointin…

Britain continues to dominate European biotech investment, says BIA

Added: 26 Jan 2026

The UK remained Europe’s leading national biotech market in 2025 throughout the year, accounting fo…

‘World first’ brain cancer implant therapy nets £4.5 million investment

Added: 25 Jan 2026

Cheshire-based medtech business QV Bioelectronics has won £4.5 million in investment and grant fund…

UK’s first AI-driven Level 3 lab launches first commercial project

Added: 18 Jan 2026

A joint British-Canadian initiative for infectious disease vaccines will be the first commercial pr…

Lab Innovations organiser releases attendance figures for "most successful" show

Added: 18 Jan 2026

Organisers of the recent Lab Innovations trade show at Birmingham NEC have claimed 2025 was their m…

Study links variants in single gene to incidences of dementia

Added: 11 Jan 2026

New research from UCL has identified variations in a single gene as an under-recognised target for …

Breast cancer is world’s most studied disease for fifth year

Added: 8 Jan 2026

Phesi’s annual report on the world’s clinical trials has revealed that breast cancer has maintained…

Researcher wins £2million for quantum tech ‘spy’ system

Added: 15 Dec 2025

Heriot-Watt University researcher Dr Aldona Mzyk has been awarded £2 million to develop quantum sen…

Particology joins £8.2 mill medicines manufacture consortium

Added: 14 Dec 2025

Particle science contract research and development organisation Particology has been chosen to join…

Biotech launches redox biology global award

Added: 8 Dec 2025

A Finnish biotech has launched its own global award for scientists specialising in redox biology, w…

Pistoia Alliance survey warns of ‘AI scientific content crisis’

Added: 8 Dec 2025

AI systems for scientific organisations are too often being built on incomplete or insufficiently t…

New UK–Brazil research group to pioneer novel bone surgery paste

Added: 30 Nov 2025

Two British institutions have set up a new research group with a peer organisation in Brazil to dev…

Microwave tech turns clothes into wearable diagnostics

Added: 24 Nov 2025

Specialists at a Finnish university are developing a series of wearables that use microwave technol…