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Lab News roundup: Honours, market reports, location moves, collaborations and research

Added: 14 Nov 2024

Diagnexia’s new histopathology laboratory in Oxford will have capacity to process 400,000 pathology…

Leukaemia research pioneers share £0.6 million fellowship funding

Added: 27 Oct 2024

Four female scientists leading innovation in cancer research have won this year’s John Goldman Fell…

Roche survey reveals global ignorance of HPV-cervical cancer link

Added: 8 Oct 2024

Around one in two respondents to a multi-country survey had little or no knowledge of the role of H…

Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research

Added: 8 Sep 2024

The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has b…

Heriot-Watt project wins £0.75 mill for alternative to painful cancer biopsies

Added: 26 Aug 2024

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are developing a new method of identifying cancerous DNA whic…

Real time tracking could slash millions from bill for lost NHS lab samples

Added: 2 Aug 2024

Supermarket style product tracking piloted at a Leeds hospital could be used to cut the NHS’s mammo…

Machine learning offers means to raise accuracy of cancer analysis

Added: 11 Jun 2024

AI collaborators in Britain and the UK have developed a computer system that they say can spot canc…

Global oncology trial investigator sites increased by half in five years, finds new Phesi analysis

Added: 28 May 2024

Global cancer trial investigator sites have increased 50% in just five years but led to a rise in t…

Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio

Added: 6 May 2024

Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together…

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Report warns of crisis as Europe’s generic medicines reduced

Added: 7 Apr 2024

A recently published study that Europe faces a crisis stemming from a substantial decline in the av…

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…

Therapy ‘alters immune cells’ to fight unresponsive tumours

Added: 10 Dec 2023

Finnish researchers say they have discovered how a new cancer therapy can alter the function of imm…

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…

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…

Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients

Added: 16 Oct 2023

Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged …

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MRC £2 million targets hard to treat cancers

Added: 17 Sep 2023

Cancers with notably poor survival rates are the targets of a £2 million Medical Research Council  …

Universities share UKRI ‘s £13 mill AI for health fund

Added: 13 Aug 2023

Secretary of State for Science and Technology Michelle Donelan announced £13 million-worth of fundi…

Fulbright Award for CMU academic’s ground-breaking organ storage research

Added: 23 Jul 2023

An academic from Cardiff Metropolitan University has received a prestigious Fulbright Award to enab…

Depression now in Top Five most studied diseases in clinical development

Added: 23 Jul 2023

Phesi’s mid-year global analysis of all clinical trials conducted to date in 2023 confirms a shift …