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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Supercomputer enables AI model to ‘speak’ better Protein

Added: 27 Oct 2025

A computer system used to study the vast expanse of the universe has been employed to develop a mac…

Firm claims successful results for test identifying 50 cancers

Added: 19 Oct 2025

US company Grail claims that results for its new blood test suggest it is capable of diagnosing mor…

Molecule demonstrates success controlling Parkinson’s-associated protein behaviour

Added: 6 Oct 2025

A so-called peptide switch developed by university scientists could offer a means to prevent the bu…

Huntington’s result 'could boost' ALS/frontotemporal dementia therapy

Added: 26 Sep 2025

Recent clinical success in combatting the effects of Huntington’s disease could herald wider advanc…

Research identifies a culprit behind cancer immunotherapy failures

Added: 21 Sep 2025

A joint UK-Finland academic project has provided new evidence about a longstanding cancer treatment…

Kennedy axes US$0.5 billion mRNA vaccine investment

Added: 6 Aug 2025

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced his department will terminate 22 government c…

Shopping mall technicians ‘offer solution to NHS eye appointments bottleneck’

Added: 14 Jul 2025

Technician staffed virtual eye clinics in shopping centres can help significantly reduce serious ap…

Mass collaboration produces benchmark recommendations for oxylipin studies

Added: 4 Jun 2025

An international collaboration involving 100 individuals from more than 70 academic institutions ha…

Space science helps target medicine’s ‘final frontier’

Added: 29 May 2025

Space pioneers have joined an international effort to unravel the mechanisms behind what they descr…

Researchers get to the heart of organ development

Added: 18 May 2025

Advanced microscopy has enabled researchers to capture in real time the formation of an animal hear…