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Single amino acid change could hold key to Neanderthal demise
Added: 19 Sep 2022
New research addresses the puzzle of why, of all the human species to have evolved, only our own av…
View Nikon Small World in Motion 2022 winners
Added: 12 Sep 2022
View the amazing microscopic images of the finalists in the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion video …
Kidney charity unveils competition for dialysis innovation
Added: 11 Sep 2022
Just weeks after a pioneering dialysis technology won a prestigious engineering award, a leading UK…
Sulzer acquisition to scale up biopolymer production
Added: 11 Sep 2022
Industrial giant Sulzer has acquired a stake in Netherland’s-based CELLiCON with the aim of scaling…
Polymer technology offers route round cryopreservation bottlenecks
Added: 27 Aug 2022
A Warwick-based laboratory team report they have mastered a technique to solve one of the abiding f…
Synthetic polymers offer means to bypass gene editing for biocatalysis
Added: 20 Aug 2022
Scientists believe they have found a way to improve the efficiency of biocatalysis by avoiding the …
Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report
Added: 20 Aug 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …
Fera Science launches £1million laboratory for insect bioconversion in York
Added: 5 Aug 2022
Agri-food and environmental science services Fera Science Ltd has opened a £1 million specialist in…
Oxford spin-out MiroBio bought by biopharma leader for £0.3 billion
Added: 5 Aug 2022
US biopharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has sealed an agreement to purchase the Oxford Universit…
BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure
Added: 29 Jul 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure f…
Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’
Added: 29 Jul 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its pre…
Creating places for people to drive life science
Added: 24 Jul 2022
While technology and collaboration has made it possible for many to consider giving up their commut…
Non-consensual citizen science?
Added: 24 Jul 2022
Russ Swan ponders the non-consensual extraction of biological information from public social images…
In silico study sheds light on elephants’ cancer resistance
Added: 17 Jul 2022
Elephants’ ability to combat cancer could help develop treatments in humans and also bolster conser…
Arboreal anural amphibians amaze academics
Added: 9 Jul 2022
A study intended to track tree-dwelling mammal species has uncovered a surprise occupant in the bra…
RSPB report criticises poor regulation of 150 pesticides
Added: 3 Jul 2022
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has attacked current risk assessments for chem…
Tributes paid to neuroscientist Sir Colin Blakemore
Added: 3 Jul 2022
Scientists and academics have paid tribute to the late professor Sir Colin Blakemore, following his…
New map of Southern Ocean floor will boost understanding of climate processes
Added: 10 Jun 2022
International researchers have completed what has been hailed as the most detailed seafloor map of …
It pays to be pretty if you’re a threatened fish
Added: 9 Jun 2022
Humans don’t only judge each other unfairly on looks, they do the same when it comes to fish specie…
Tooth unlocks mystery of Denisovans in Asia
Added: 3 Jun 2022
Denisovans, a sister species of modern human, inhabited Laos by 164-131,000 years with important im…
