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A vision beyond gold

Added: 11 Mar 2024

Little more than a year since its win at the Lab Awards, Cytecom has secured an NIHCR contract to t…

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…

Fox Foundation and bit.bio announce first Parkinson’s project

Added: 10 Mar 2024

The Michael J Fox Foundation and Cambridge synthetic biology company bit.bio have announced their f…

Unravelling the secrets of RNA

Added: 4 Mar 2024

Advancing scientific knowledge of plant structures not only improves crop yields but also helps tre…

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 …

Nine in 10 life scientists surveyed don’t understand US or European AI rules

Added: 25 Feb 2024

Just 9% of life science professionals polled say they understand either EU or US laws on the use of…

Modern drug discovery

Gates Foundation grant opens door to PhaSER project acceleration

Added: 25 Feb 2024

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted Edinburgh’s PhaSER Biomedical a US$2.3 million gran…

Stat… fact… friction?

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Do the figures speak for themselves? Rarely, warns Russ Swan.

Report underlines economic returns on public investment in science

Added: 11 Feb 2024

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council-commissioned research estimates that the org…

Aston-Warwick initiative wins key UKRI funds

Added: 11 Feb 2024

A joint team from Aston and Warwick universities and the University of Warwick have won nearly £2 m…

Anglo-Norwegian study casts light on treatment resistant bacteria

Added: 4 Feb 2024

A study comparing the UK and Norway over two decades, has concluded that antibiotic use may drive a…

EnsiliTech wins contract to develop ‘freezer-free’ global mRNA vaccine

Added: 28 Jan 2024

EnsiliTech, the University of Bath spin-out pioneering new methods of transporting medicines and fo…

Knauer mourns death of founder

Added: 28 Jan 2024

Founder of the German lab equipment manufacturer KNAUER Dr Herbert Knauer has died at the age of 92.

The changing diagnostic testing paradigm

Added: 22 Jan 2024

Despite laboratories’ longstanding reliance upon microbial culture for infectious disease identific…

First ever Blavatnik award wins for Heriot-Watt and Innes centre as nine share honours

Added: 21 Jan 2024

Nine scientists have shared the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK and with it a …

Cherwell joins global brand AnalytiChem Group

Added: 14 Jan 2024

Cleanroom microbiology solutions leader Cherwell Laboratories has been acquired by the German globa…

Aston £18 mill bid to lead on science and tech

Added: 8 Jan 2024

Aston University is investing £18 million in doctoral research funding to realise its aim of being …

Covid blow to Turing’s first year but positives too

Added: 8 Jan 2024

Britain’s replacement to the Erasmus Programme scholarships attained less than 60% of its target nu…

Azenta’s Oxford genomics lab to open in March

Added: 21 Dec 2023

Azenta Life Sciences has selected Oxford as the location for its state of the art genomics lab open…

AI responsibility remains in our hands, warns Ri Christmas Lecturer

Added: 18 Dec 2023

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for better decision making but the ‘ethical buck’ stops …