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BDD wins £2 million investment to expand early phase clinical trials

Added: 20 Aug 2023

Clinical trials company BDD has secured a further round of investment for £2 million to aid expansi…

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Siemens supports Indivior to set new standards with automated plant in Hull

Added: 20 Aug 2023

Siemens is supporting global manufacturer of addiction and mental health treatment medicines Indivi…

UEA coastal erosion project will test new tech’s predictive powers

Added: 13 Aug 2023

One of the counties most at risk from coastal erosion will provide the location for a technological…

Tax crackdown heralds new R&D relief headaches

Added: 13 Aug 2023

Science research and development tax relief applications will now face an extra hurdle thanks to ne…

Universities share UKRI ‘s £13 mill AI for health fund

Added: 13 Aug 2023

Secretary of State for Science and Technology Michelle Donelan announced £13 million-worth of fundi…

Plunging research output holds back UK revival claims report

Added: 6 Aug 2023

The UK’s research infrastructure and funding system must be radically overhauled in order to improv…

NPL clock watchers hit the big time

Added: 6 Aug 2023

Britain’s National Physical Laboratory is celebrating a major achievement by its scientists with th…

Juvenile star is image of the year

Added: 6 Aug 2023

American Laurent Formery’s portrait of the nervous system of a juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata) …

IET football tournament’s out of this world

Added: 3 Aug 2023

Moon Rovers 2: Lunar United 3. While it sounds like Fantasy Football, it could be one day as feasib…

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Scottish researchers seek to turn plastic waste into pharmaceuticals

Added: 30 Jul 2023

A new project led by Scottish researchers is aiming to revolutionise the pharmaceutical industry by…

NPL and STFC collaborate on small satellite calibration facility

Added: 29 Jul 2023

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is partnering with the Science and Technology Facilities Cou…

Hurry before deadline falls for 2023 Lab Awards’ 13 categories!

Added: 25 Jul 2023

You have just three days to make the deadline for nominations for the expanded, 13 category 2023 La…

Fulbright Award for CMU academic’s ground-breaking organ storage research

Added: 23 Jul 2023

An academic from Cardiff Metropolitan University has received a prestigious Fulbright Award to enab…

Depression now in Top Five most studied diseases in clinical development

Added: 23 Jul 2023

Phesi’s mid-year global analysis of all clinical trials conducted to date in 2023 confirms a shift …

Remote robotic tech ‘could transform medical assessment in high risk situations’

Added: 23 Jul 2023

Research at Sheffield University is claiming a breakthrough in robotics technology enabling remote …

Physics journal policy change opens door to original research

Added: 11 Jul 2023

One of the UK’s oldest science titles is to start publishing original research for the first time i…

Yellow brick road, smart glasses and virtual assistant join semi-finalist of multimillion Longitude dementia tech competition

Added: 11 Jul 2023

An augmented reality ‘yellow brick road’, smart glasses that recognise faces and a virtual speech a…

Lab Innovations 2023 opens for visitor registration

Added: 10 Jul 2023

Lab Innovations has officially opened visitor registration for its upcoming event on November 1 and…

Algorithmic advance opens door for predicting Net Zero-friendly material structures

Added: 9 Jul 2023

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have claimed a significant advance in the development of …

Pines and paper alleviate science's sustainable pain killer headache

Added: 9 Jul 2023

Bath University's Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability has revealed a sustainab…