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First female Chief Scientific Adviser Dame Angela set to assume role in weeks

Added: 23 Feb 2023

Newly-appointed Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) Professor Dame Angela McLean will take o…

A coordinated advance

Added: 20 Feb 2023

Deep virology knowledge, urgency and partnership form the crucible for rapid antibody development t…

UK research teams share £2.5 million kidney funding boost

Added: 3 Feb 2023

Fourteen projects focused on kidney disease treatment are to share one of the most sizeable funding…

'A fifth of cancer trial sites enrol only one patient'

Added: 3 Feb 2023

Nearly one in five cancer clinical trial enrolment sites surveyed worldwide failed to enrol more th…

Science reveals why Roy Keane's like a Rottweiler

Added: 1 Feb 2023

What does Roy Keane have in common with a Rottweiler? Physiologically, quite a lot – or rather a sh…

UK biotech investment plunges 60% from previous year's all-time high

Added: 29 Jan 2023

UK biotech investment for 2022 dropped from the previous year’s all-time record, reveals the latest…

Medicines Discovery Catapult and SMi gain funding for ‘one second’ biomarker technology

Added: 29 Jan 2023

A project that aims to detect several cancer-associated biomarkers from a single blood sample in un…

Judges announced for £4 million Longitude Prize for AI-assisted dementia technology

Added: 23 Jan 2023

Leading figures from academia, charities and medical institutions are among the judges chosen for t…

Government aid for healthcare innovation trio welcomed

Added: 22 Jan 2023

InnoScot Health, the private body working with NHS Scotland to drive commercial innovation in the s…

Breast cancer studies top global clinical trials for 2022

Added: 15 Jan 2023

Breast cancer remains the most studied disease according to recent global analysis of thousands of …

UK’s second largest biobank eyes 1 million samples in first year 

Added: 15 Jan 2023

BioGrad is set to open the country's second largest biobank facility within a £7.6 million investme…

Chemical sector welcomes REACH deadline consultation results

Added: 8 Jan 2023

Chemical sector businesses and organisations have overwhelmingly backed extension of transitional r…

LifeArc pairs with Euro partner to improve respiratory disease outcomes

Added: 17 Dec 2022

Life science charity LifeArc has embarked on a three year partnership with the European Multicentre…

Liverpool industry and academia join forces with new solution to fight hospital infections

Added: 17 Dec 2022

Antimicrobial coatings will be installed on a trial basis for touchscreens and door handles in the …

Discovery Park unveils scheme to grow job opportunities 100% in a decade

Added: 11 Dec 2022

Discovery Park plans to double the number of jobs it provides to around 7,000 over the next decade.…

Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme 

Added: 11 Dec 2022

Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images i…

Mimicry with consistency

Added: 5 Dec 2022

Research into neurodegenerative conditions can be hampered by difficulty accessing scalable, transl…

Birmingham Uni institute’s Arlt to be new MRC London Institute Director

Added: 27 Nov 2022

Award-winning clinical endocrinologist Professor Wiebke Arlt will be the new Director of the Medica…

Imaging breakthrough may provide ASD diagnosis biomarker

Added: 27 Nov 2022

Scientists at Yale University say they have identified a possible biomarker for autism spectrum dis…

Data explosion threatens Catch 22 for pathogen research

Added: 20 Nov 2022

Science’s efforts to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being hampered by th…