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Millions of pounds of expired Covid PPE faces disposal, claims firm
Added: 22 Nov 2022
A surplus of personal protective equipment to deal with an expected third winter spike in Covid-19 …
Data explosion threatens Catch 22 for pathogen research
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Science’s efforts to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being hampered by th…
Swiss-UK deal eases EU Horizon disappointments
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Britain and Switzerland have sealed an agreement for collaboration on research and innovation proje…
Tech challenges hinder mountain water data gathering
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Global failure to make better use of the latest monitoring technologies for high altitude water dat…
Health data project appeals for 5 million UK volunteers
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Five million UK adults are being invited to participate in one of the largest and most ambitious he…
Jha and Rannard headline at Lab Innovations
Added: 31 Oct 2022
Economist science correspondent Alok Jha and leading academic and spin-out pioneer Dr Steve Rannard…
Global project to measure carbon footprint of clinical trials
Added: 16 Oct 2022
A new international initiative is developing a methodology to assess the respective environmental i…
Professional rugby players may have greater neurodegenerative disease risk, suggests research
Added: 9 Oct 2022
Former international rugby players included in a recent health study showed risks of neurodegenerat…
Ukraine conflict leaves a hole in clinical trials enrolment in region
Added: 9 Oct 2022
Clinical trials in Ukraine and Russia have plunged by around 50% during 2022, according to the late…
Jacobs to support refurbishment of UK nuclear research laboratories
Added: 26 Sep 2022
US technical consultancy leaders Jacobs has won a £10 million contract to support National Nuclear …
Revised UKRI award increases PhD minimum by £2k
Added: 5 Sep 2022
PhD students will benefit from a 10% increase in the previously announced UK Research and Innovatio…
Liquid platinum catalyst offers sustainable solution for industry
Added: 27 Aug 2022
Australian scientists say they have found a way to employ platinum as a potentially scalable indust…
Sustainability may impact water security more than economics alone
Added: 20 Aug 2022
Equality of access among households to water supplies that are clean and plentiful may owe as much …
Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report
Added: 20 Aug 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …
UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films
Added: 13 Aug 2022
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a ma…
Warning that 1 in 3 adults will lack higher Covid antibody levels by next vaccination round
Added: 13 Aug 2022
A continued fall in the number of UK adults with higher level Covid antibody levels makes it likely…
MDC and ZEISS join forces to catapult complex medicine development
Added: 13 Aug 2022
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) the not-for-profit organisation established by Innovate UK, has …
Oxford spin-out MiroBio bought by biopharma leader for £0.3 billion
Added: 5 Aug 2022
US biopharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has sealed an agreement to purchase the Oxford Universit…
Fera Science launches £1million laboratory for insect bioconversion in York
Added: 5 Aug 2022
Agri-food and environmental science services Fera Science Ltd has opened a £1 million specialist in…
Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’
Added: 29 Jul 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its pre…
