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Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub
Added: 13 Feb 2025
Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than…

Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope
Added: 9 Feb 2025
Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million …

Crafoord Prize laureates honoured for autoimmune disease work
Added: 8 Feb 2025
Darwin and Wallace, Newton and Leibniz, or Priestley, Scheele and Lavoisier – history provides nume…

Seven CERSI centres launched to speed regulatory innovation in UK medicine
Added: 28 Jan 2025
Innovate UK has announced seven Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSIs…

Gallium-based bone cancer therapy paste secures £110k support
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Grant money of £110,000 has been awarded to help develop an injectable paste that could have the po…

Composite product offers hope for neurodegenerative conditions, claim developers
Added: 13 Jan 2025
A novel composite material created by two UK universities has the potential to provide new treatmen…

Imperial’s smart heart reading T-shirt nets £340k
Added: 6 Jan 2025
Imperial College London researchers have secured more than a third of a million pounds to enable th…

Access your free copy of the Laboratory News Christmas issue…
Added: 20 Dec 2024
Scientist and presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken explains why eating is like an arms race as he prepar…

Stick-on monitor offers cheap and precise warning system for critical conditions, say researchers
Added: 16 Dec 2024
A novel breathing monitor created by university and commercial partners is capable of providing a l…

Durham points the way for rapid delivery global surveys
Added: 8 Dec 2024
Durham university says it has achieved one of the highest ever response rates for a global, large s…

British Heart Foundation Heart Hero Awards highlight breakthrough pioneers
Added: 8 Dec 2024
Cardiovascular research pioneer professor Adam Greenstein has been awarded the prestigious Research…

LLMs’ neuroscience predictions leave the experts trailing
Added: 1 Dec 2024
They’ve long since proved their effectiveness in information retrieval. Now large language models h…

Cell detectives offer clues to counter rheumatoid arthritis flare-ups
Added: 1 Dec 2024
The body’s ‘cell detectives’ could be employed as biomarkers for one of the world’s most widespread…

Scientists beat chefs to the skinniest spaghetti
Added: 25 Nov 2024
UCL scientists have ousted a renowned Sardinian pasta maker’s record for the thinnest pasta ever cr…

Research suggests heart condition impacted by many rather than one single gene
Added: 25 Nov 2024
New research has called into question the nature of the genetic catalysts for a leading cause of he…

Lab News roundup: Honours, market reports, location moves, collaborations and research
Added: 14 Nov 2024
Diagnexia’s new histopathology laboratory in Oxford will have capacity to process 400,000 pathology…

Life science leaders warn medicine’s Budget windfall must be supported by talent drive
Added: 11 Nov 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget announcement of more than half a billion pounds-worth of investmen…

Data FOMO may undermine clinical trials’ ROI, Phesi warns
Added: 11 Nov 2024
‘FOMO’ (fear of missing out) may be partly to blame for an over-collection of data that has dogged …

Budget delivers financial heft to Labour’s science R&D promises
Added: 3 Nov 2024
The Labour government’s first Budget appeared to confirm a commitment to life sciences and research…

Leukaemia research pioneers share £0.6 million fellowship funding
Added: 27 Oct 2024
Four female scientists leading innovation in cancer research have won this year’s John Goldman Fell…