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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…

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…

Treatments remain effective for Mpox says study
Added: 15 Jan 2023
Joint research by British and German institutions suggest that current drugs used to combat the glo…

The EU clinical clock is ticking
Added: 9 Jan 2023
With the 31 January 2023 switch to new EU Clinical Trial Regulations fast approaching, Werner Engel…

Chemical sector welcomes REACH deadline consultation results
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Chemical sector businesses and organisations have overwhelmingly backed extension of transitional r…

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…

Knowledge is power: In silico modelling of Covid-19
Added: 3 Oct 2022
Scientific research takes time. But, as the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted, sometimes that’s a luxur…

AI-enhanced chromatography aims to boost analysis accuracy and speed
Added: 30 Sep 2022
Fujitsu has signed a deal with the French firm Phytocontrol to integrate artificial intellegence to…

MND treatment offers hope for further research on disease variants
Added: 22 Sep 2022
Treatment administered for a specific variant of motor-neurone disease (MND) has reportedly been ef…

Precision initiative offers £0.3 million for person-centred medicine
Added: 27 Aug 2022
Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (PMS-IC) has launched a fund offering up to £0.3 mill…
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…

Time for masks not musical chairs, health secretary told
Added: 9 Jul 2022
Incoming health secretary Steve Barclay has been urged to reintroduce the wearing of facemasks and …

Lab furniture design for health and hygiene
Added: 10 May 2022
Unlike cleanrooms, many laboratories aren’t ISO 14644 registered when it comes to air particle coun…

Improving contract lab efficiency and productivity through automation
Added: 29 Apr 2022
As demand for outsourced microbiological testing to assure the food value chain increases, contract…

The voice of the empowered patient is on the rise
Added: 22 Apr 2022
Industry experts agree that patient-centricity should be the overriding aim of global life science …

New antibiotic assessment mechanism to procure drugs to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Added: 20 Apr 2022
One of the UK’s leading infectious disease biotech companies has lauded the conclusions of a projec…

It’s all just a matter of perception
Added: 4 Apr 2022
In anticipation of the announcement of this year’s competition winners, we asked previous winners a…

Incorporating valuable microbiome data into drug development pipeline
Added: 16 Feb 2022
A three-phase project will build a ‘Microbiome Atlas’ to power an algorithm for predicting the micr…

World's first confocal light microscope to study chiral molecules
Added: 11 Feb 2022
Scientists from Durham University’s Chemistry Department have developed the world’s first laser sca…