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E.coli engineered to consume CO2
Added: 28 Nov 2019
Synthetic biologists have engineered an autotrophic form of bacteria.
Carbon nanotubes grown on newsprint
Added: 26 Nov 2019
Your old copies of Lab News may still have some unexpected uses in the lab…
Ethiopian ponds too extreme even for microbes
Added: 25 Nov 2019
European biologists have confirmed the one place on Earth where conditions are too extreme for life…
Curiosity rover reveals oxygen spikes on Mars
Added: 15 Nov 2019
Readings from NASA’s Curiosity rover have revealed a surprising jump in oxygen in the Martian atmos…
Ultra-fine particles linked to brain cancer
Added: 14 Nov 2019
Air pollution nanoparticles have been linked to brain cancer for the first time.
AMR Centre nominates MBL inhibitor
Added: 11 Nov 2019
The AMR Centre has nominated a preclinical candidate molecule for its programme to overcome resista…
EPSRC funds new nuclear robotics facility
Added: 8 Nov 2019
EPSRC is funding for a new national facility that will support nuclear robotics R&D across four ins…
Wellcome leads genome-mapping project
Added: 8 Nov 2019
The Wellcome Sanger Institute is among 10 organisations that are part of a project to map genomes o…
11,000 scientists declare climate emergency
Added: 6 Nov 2019
More than 11,000 scientist signatories support new a paper warning of “untold human suffering” that…
UK government withdraws fracking support
Added: 4 Nov 2019
The government has withdrawn its support of fracking in England until further scientific evidence i…
Ultra low-mass black hole uncovered
Added: 1 Nov 2019
Astrophysicists say they have discovered evidence of the smallest black hole ever detected – just 3…
Rivals question Google’s quantum supremacy claim
Added: 28 Oct 2019
Google researchers claimed quantum supremacy last week, shortly followed by rebuke from its rivals.
NHS England urges homeopathy ban
Added: 28 Oct 2019
NHS England has written to the Professional Standards Agency urging it to remove its accreditation …
Rahko raises £1.3M for quantum chemistry simulation
Added: 18 Oct 2019
UCL spin-out Rahko has raised £1.3 million in seed funding to develop its machine learning-powered …
Mogrify raises $16M for cell therapy
Added: 18 Oct 2019
Biotechnology company Mogrify has raised an additional $16 million to develop its cell therapy prog…
Brexit already damaging UK science, says Royal Society
Added: 17 Oct 2019
Figures released by the Royal Society indicate the damaging impact on UK science caused by the unce…
AI university to open in UAE next year
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The world’s first graduate level research university dedicated to AI will welcome its first intake …
Wellcome Trust on the hunt for best public engagement
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The Wellcome Trust has launched an initiative to find the best examples of public engagement projec…
ESA opens calls for ISS lab upgrade
Added: 14 Oct 2019
The European Space Agency is looking for industry help to upgrade the Columbus laboratory aboard th…
Saturn surpasses Jupiter as 'moon king'
Added: 10 Oct 2019
Another 20 moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, each around five kilometres, or three miles,…
