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Cherwell joins global brand AnalytiChem Group
Added: 14 Jan 2024
Cleanroom microbiology solutions leader Cherwell Laboratories has been acquired by the German globa…
Covid blow to Turing’s first year but positives too
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Britain’s replacement to the Erasmus Programme scholarships attained less than 60% of its target nu…
Modern microscopy identifies Dutch master’s £175k handiwork
Added: 21 Dec 2023
A microscope discovered by chance in a house clearance has been authenticated as the work of ‘the f…
Azenta’s Oxford genomics lab to open in March
Added: 21 Dec 2023
Azenta Life Sciences has selected Oxford as the location for its state of the art genomics lab open…
AI responsibility remains in our hands, warns Ri Christmas Lecturer
Added: 18 Dec 2023
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for better decision making but the ‘ethical buck’ stops …
Testing giant invests millions in connected lab
Added: 18 Dec 2023
Global testing, inspection and certification services leader Element Materials Technology has commi…
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…
Robots ‘offer effective intervention in combatting loneliness and negative emotions’
Added: 4 Dec 2023
‘Social’ robots employed during the pandemic to overcome isolation were able to help individuals st…
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…
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…
First phase of Oxford’s new 1 million sq. ft lab district begins
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Laing O’Rourke will begin the initial phase of Oxford North’s £700 million new innovation district,…
DEFRA data share essential to pandemic preparation urges expert
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Non-healthcare bodies such as DEFRA need to collaborate more fully with healthcare organisations in…
BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre
Added: 19 Nov 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish t…
Bioinformatician’s data protection work wins 2023 Einstein Prize
Added: 19 Nov 2023
One of the world’s largest prizes for academic research has been awarded to the Belgian bioinformat…
Newly launched firm secures £4.3 million seed funding to target drug-resistant bacteria
Added: 19 Nov 2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company developing precision antibiotic therapies, has raised £4.3 million in …
AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater s…
Experts reveal five data strategies to improve mental health waiting lists
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Burgeoning mental health treatment lists must be tackled with the adoptions of five key data strate…
First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imag…
Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help …
Nikon photomicrography competition unveils more small world stunners
Added: 23 Oct 2023
An image of the common by-product of diabetes that causes widespread sight loss affecting up to one…
