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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…

Five years beavering bears water for ecologists

Added: 1 Apr 2024

An East Anglian project to reintroduce beavers to the region claims the animals have contributed to…

Biotech chief wins Potts chemistry award

Added: 1 Apr 2024

CEO and founder of biotech Liverpool ChiroChem CEO Dr Paul Colbon has won the prestigious Potts Med…

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…

Aston and allies open doctoral centre for next generation greenhouse gas leaders

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Aston University is to host a doctoral training centre to train a new generation of scientists to h…

Scots biotech labs receive vital scale-up boost

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Scottish bio-based business will be able to access a state-of-the-art fermenter vital to develop pr…

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Algorithm anarchy

Added: 12 Mar 2024

We are hoodwinked by algorithms. They are seen as guiding lights; in reality they are error-prone a…

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…

Extra-terrestrial invader downgraded to a truck

Added: 10 Mar 2024

Ground vibrations picked up at a remote seismic station a decade ago and attributed to a meteor may…

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…

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 …

Private R&D investment fall prompts pre-Budget call for action

Added: 3 Mar 2024

In a statement timed ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget, the chief executive of the Na…

‘Potash price rise undermines global food security’ warning

Added: 25 Feb 2024

Rising prices for potash across the globe are creating a threat to the level of global food securit…

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…

UKSA £7.4 mill funds UK universities’ role in global space race

Added: 19 Feb 2024

UK Space Agency funding will enable university based scientists to be involved in a raft internatio…

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…

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Surrey makes history with two pinches of salt

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Scientists at the University of Surrey are claiming a first with their observations on the effects …