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Banking on precision

Added: 3 Mar 2025

Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…

Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer

Added: 2 Mar 2025

Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help unde…

Letters of mark

Added: 24 Feb 2025

Professional registration provides a clear indication of competency and access to valuable resource…

Virtual reality, actual implications

Added: 24 Feb 2025

Digitalisation is transforming the nature of healthcare by sidestepping previous physical constrain…

Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness

Added: 22 Feb 2025

UCL retinal specialists received special permission to use a novel therapy to restore some sight to…

ERJ Brainteaser: March

Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects

Added: 22 Feb 2025

Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…

Time to launch bureaucracy 4.0

Added: 17 Feb 2025

Laboratories have embraced the digital age. Isn’t it time medical logistics did the same to save re…

Novel interrogation

Added: 17 Feb 2025

Innovative research is essential to the development of new treatments, says Philipp Koellinger, who…

Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse

Added: 14 Feb 2025

They might be the stuff of horror movies but Egyptian mummies seem to have lasted the course where …

Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub

Added: 13 Feb 2025

Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than…

Tell it to the spin doctor

Added: 10 Feb 2025

Despite being an internationally renowned centre of academic excellence, the UK is struggling to co…

Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope

Added: 9 Feb 2025

Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million …

Crafoord Prize laureates honoured for autoimmune disease work

Added: 8 Feb 2025

Darwin and Wallace, Newton and Leibniz, or Priestley, Scheele and Lavoisier – history provides nume…

Alga ‘superfood’ comes with scaling up challenges, say scientists

Added: 7 Feb 2025

A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultura…

Seven CERSI centres launched to speed regulatory innovation in UK medicine

Added: 28 Jan 2025

Innovate UK has announced seven Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSIs…

Coolly compliant

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Upgrading and replacing assets such as refrigeration equipment requires careful attention not only …

Gallium-based bone cancer therapy paste secures £110k support

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Grant money of £110,000 has been awarded to help develop an injectable paste that could have the po…

Breast cancer tops clinical studies for fourth year as overall trial attrition rates rise

Added: 21 Jan 2025

Breast cancer continues to be the world’s most studied disease in clinical trials, topping all cate…

At the heart of things

Added: 20 Jan 2025

London’s role as a lab science location has been limited by shortage of sites but evidence suggests…

The write stuff

Added: 20 Jan 2025

Procrastination gets you far, says Matthew Partridge. All the way to deadline time.