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Human placenta map offers hope against pregnancy threats

Added: 6 May 2024

Pregnancy safe therapies for deadly diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria could be b…

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…

Working party shares 7 point plan for control of animal-to-human diseases

Added: 28 Apr 2024

The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has released its recommendations regarding the potential use of …

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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…

‘Moon lander’ molecule caught on the move

Added: 28 Apr 2024

A combination of spectroscopy and computer simulations have revealed how pyramidal molecules are ab…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Alpha Labs swabs can help achieve COVID testing targets

Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic

Added: 24 Mar 2024

A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style h…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

Memory deterioration prevented in animal model of Alzheimer’s

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Suppressing neuronal activity in the part of the brain that regulates sleep can prevent memory dete…

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…