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Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio
Added: 6 May 2024
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together…
Cell conversion technique ‘offers boost for personalised treatments’
Added: 28 Apr 2024
Prospects for personalised treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases could have been boost…
Birmingham’s triage seeks way round drug discovery’s ‘valley of death’
Added: 21 Apr 2024
Birmingham university has shared details of its drug development model, designed to overcome one of…
Scottish testing centre prepares for pioneering Alzheimer’s role
Added: 21 Apr 2024
The University of St Andrews is on course to launch Scotland’s first blood tests for early stage Al…
‘Heartphone’ tracker could revolutionise disease prevention
Added: 14 Apr 2024
The popularity of the smartphone could provide significant advances in the rate of detection of hea…
Science mourns Nobel physicist Higgs
Added: 14 Apr 2024
Tributes been made worldwide to Peter Higgs, the Nobel-winning physicist who gave his name to the H…
Global forum’s cash challenge to boost cardiovascular funding
Added: 7 Apr 2024
The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), has announced a new cash prize aimed at i…
Study links inbreeding and pregnancy loss in horses
Added: 7 Apr 2024
Mid and late term pregnancy loss among thoroughbred horses appears to correlate significantly with …
Report warns of crisis as Europe’s generic medicines reduced
Added: 7 Apr 2024
A recently published study that Europe faces a crisis stemming from a substantial decline in the av…
PacBio system to assist Estonia’s national genome scheme
Added: 1 Apr 2024
Estonia’s University of Tartu has chosen PacBio’s Revio HiFi sequencing system for the next stage o…
Five years beavering bears water for ecologists
Added: 1 Apr 2024
An East Anglian project to reintroduce beavers to the region claims the animals have contributed to…
Biotech chief wins Potts chemistry award
Added: 1 Apr 2024
CEO and founder of biotech Liverpool ChiroChem CEO Dr Paul Colbon has won the prestigious Potts Med…
UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treat…
Three nation European partnership to advance heart disease treatment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The British Heart Foundation (BHF), Dutch Heart Foundation (DHF) and German Centre for Cardiovascul…
Scots biotech labs receive vital scale-up boost
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Scottish bio-based business will be able to access a state-of-the-art fermenter vital to develop pr…
Pharma/life science survey response deals blow to Sunak’s overtures
Added: 11 Mar 2024
Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s efforts to put life science investment at the heart of the UK’s econom…
Private R&D investment fall prompts pre-Budget call for action
Added: 3 Mar 2024
In a statement timed ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget, the chief executive of the Na…
Radio waves offer gentler and more efficient way to alter bacteria DNA
Added: 3 Mar 2024
Radio waves have been successfully harnessed to provide a less traumatic means to alter the DNA of …
Jellyfish inspire fast forensics fingerprint breakthrough
Added: 3 Mar 2024
A new water soluble, non-toxic fluorescent spray that renders fingerprints visible in 10 seconds is…
‘Potash price rise undermines global food security’ warning
Added: 25 Feb 2024
Rising prices for potash across the globe are creating a threat to the level of global food securit…
