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Warwick launches £6 million R&D space investment
Added: 1 Dec 2025
University of Warwick Science Park (UWSP) is to invest millions in redeveloping one of its key site…
Business spend on R&D improves for first time in years
Added: 30 Nov 2025
Company expenditure on research and development in the UK increased to £55.6 billion in 2024, accor…
UK’s nuclear material offers plentiful source for new cancer therapy
Added: 24 Nov 2025
Britain’s recycled nuclear material is to be used for the production of new precision cancer treatm…
Resilience head says Lords life science report ignores training role
Added: 16 Nov 2025
The head of one of the UK Medicines Manufacturing Centres of Excellence has said a recent Parliamen…
Kingston study proposes invertebrate solution to decline of in vivo lab skills
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Invertebrate creatures could offer the means to tackle a life sciences skills gap, suggests a new r…
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…
Launch of three new microwave digestion systems
Added: 13 Oct 2025
Quality analysis with ICP-MS and AA/ICP-OES starts with good sample preparation and for this to be …
UK science institutions ‘vulnerable’ to political interference, warns report
Added: 9 Oct 2025
Leading UK scientific institutions such as the Met Office and the UK Health Security Agency lack su…
November 5 deadline for AMR innovators to share PACE £6 million
Added: 6 Oct 2025
One of the UK’s largest public-private initiatives for antimicrobial drug and diagnostic developmen…
Laboratory News new issue: is science publishing too obsessed with citation?
Added: 6 Oct 2025
Science publishing has become too focused on achieving citations at the expense of advancing knowle…
Oxford’s example ‘could generate massive boost to regional spin-outs’
Added: 20 Sep 2025
An extra £15 billion in funding for UK university spin-outs over the next decade could generate nea…
Nuclear associations’ deal aims to foster greater US-UK exchange
Added: 19 Sep 2025
The UK’s Nuclear Institute and the American Nuclear Society (ANS) have signed an agreement to offer…
Phase 2 trials underway for new pneumococcal disease vaccine
Added: 15 Sep 2025
Trials are underway on a £3.2 million-funded new vaccine to tackle the presence pneumococcal diseas…
ABPI and NCUB: lack of competitiveness undermining UK life sciences
Added: 14 Sep 2025
Britain’s place as a global leader in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors has plunged in r…
Spin-out’s £10 million aims to replace 10 billion single use plastic items
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Cambridge university spin-out Xampla has won investment worth millions to enable it to develop plan…
Graphite innovation for nuclear sector wins £13 million
Added: 16 Aug 2025
A scheme to support Britain’s nuclear industry through the development of sustainable graphite supp…
Generative AI boost in battle against drug resistance
Added: 15 Aug 2025
Generative AI has enabled the creation of novel antibiotics capable of killing two highly drug resi…
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…
Parliament's senior committee claims UKRI lacks accountability
Added: 28 Jul 2025
Parliament’s senior select committee has called on government to impose tighter scrutiny on UK Rese…
