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Cambridge funds revolutionary underground work
Added: 22 Feb 2026
Nature recovery programme Cumbria Connect has received funding from a key conservation group for it…
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…
‘Cultural mismatch’ mars university-investor R&D collaboration, says report
Added: 4 Feb 2026
Research funding in the UK is being hampered by a “cultural mismatch” between universities and inve…
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…
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 …
New towns challenge Oxbridge supercluster domination
Added: 9 Jan 2026
Two of Britain’s post-war new towns are challenging Oxford and Cambridge’s domination of the countr…
Manchester investment to develop energy storage technology
Added: 22 Dec 2025
Manchester university will lead a collaborative project to pioneer technology for long-term energy …
Enthusiasm for UK’s Erasmus return leaves question over Turing scheme
Added: 18 Dec 2025
News that the UK has agreed terms with the European Union to rejoin the Erasmus+ research and study…
New MedTech quals will tackle science skills gap, vows minister
Added: 14 Dec 2025
New higher technical qualifications (HTQs) have been developed in order to boost skills in the fast…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
