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Aston mourns pharmacy school pioneer Mike Brown
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Aston University Pharmacy School has announced the recent death of Professor Mike Brown, who was in…
Flower power inspires drug cell breakthrough
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Bath university scientists have borrowed from nature to develop more stable versions of proteins an…
First phase of Oxford’s new 1 million sq. ft lab district begins
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Laing O’Rourke will begin the initial phase of Oxford North’s £700 million new innovation district,…
DEFRA data share essential to pandemic preparation urges expert
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Non-healthcare bodies such as DEFRA need to collaborate more fully with healthcare organisations in…
Autumn Statement: Chancellor confirms investment for growth via science
Added: 22 Nov 2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today confirmed the expected raft of commitments to boost the UK economy wit…
BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre
Added: 19 Nov 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish t…
Bioinformatician’s data protection work wins 2023 Einstein Prize
Added: 19 Nov 2023
One of the world’s largest prizes for academic research has been awarded to the Belgian bioinformat…
Newly launched firm secures £4.3 million seed funding to target drug-resistant bacteria
Added: 19 Nov 2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company developing precision antibiotic therapies, has raised £4.3 million in …
Record number of Lab Awards for 2023
Added: 12 Nov 2023
Industry leaders and emerging talent dominated the winners of this year’s Lab Awards 2023, with the…
Edward Witten wins 2023 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
Added: 12 Nov 2023
American physicist, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Edward Wit…
Bath puts safer water on the map via new OASIS
Added: 12 Nov 2023
A portable water quality monitor developed by University of Bath students aims to enable rapid dete…
AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater s…
NPL and government/industry partners launch quantum standards pilot
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The National Physical Laboratory has launched a pilot scheme designed to ensure the UK maintains a …
Experts reveal five data strategies to improve mental health waiting lists
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Burgeoning mental health treatment lists must be tackled with the adoptions of five key data strate…
New map of UK 20th century land use throws light on biodiversity change
Brian Attwood | Added: 30 Oct 2023
The first map has been produced that can detail how nearly all of Britain’s lowland meadows and pas…
CGI signs three year Royal Institution Christmas Lectures deal
Added: 29 Oct 2023
The Royal Institution (Ri) has launched a three-year agreement with business consultancy CGI as the…
ABB and Imperial agree second decade of carbon capture collaboration
Added: 29 Oct 2023
Technology giant ABB and Imperial College London have renewed their longstanding carbon capture joi…
First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imag…
Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help …
Nikon photomicrography competition unveils more small world stunners
Added: 23 Oct 2023
An image of the common by-product of diabetes that causes widespread sight loss affecting up to one…
