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New body aims to deliver on chemicals sector green pledge

Added: 8 Dec 2024

A new body designed to speed the transition to sustainable chemicals and materials in the UK has be…

Birmingham cell science initiative promises cross-application testing

Added: 27 Oct 2024

University of Birmingham Enterprise announces the launch of a new division, Biocell Energetics, to …

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…

Fulfilling Biopharma’s needs using process Raman Spectroscopy

Added: 12 Oct 2024

Quality control is vital to biopharma workflows, explains Sudhir Dahal. Raman spectroscopy can play…

Aston AIME celebrates launch with collaborative science

Added: 22 Sep 2024

The new Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence has hosted its official academic launch at Aston Un…

BioGrad announces national expansion with opening of York site

Added: 22 Sep 2024

Laboratory testing specialist BioGrad Group has announced plans for a major site in York – the fift…

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…

Focus on the foreign to life

Added: 12 Aug 2024

Xenobiotics – those chemical substances found within organisms but not naturally produced by them –…

Blood thinner threatens to take the sting out of cobra’s deadly bite

Added: 22 Jul 2024

CRISPR gene editing technology has enabled scientists at the University of Sydney and Liverpool Sch…

Pistoia initiative seeks to counter slow take-up of animal free testing

Added: 13 Jul 2024

More than three quarters of R&D respondents to a new survey by the global Pistoia Alliance say they…

Once more, with feeling

Added: 20 May 2024

AI has proven its worth as a research tool and now it’s time to tap its potential for clinical tria…

‘Citizen army’ sought to assess Scotland’s mosquito threat

Added: 13 May 2024

Citizen scientists are being recruited to help a collaborative project led by an alliance of academ…

Fewer than one in three experts prepared for AI challenge, suggests Pistoia 

Added: 13 May 2024

Less than one third of life science experts polled in a Pistoia Alliance survey say they are coping…

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…

‘Moon lander’ molecule caught on the move

Added: 28 Apr 2024

A combination of spectroscopy and computer simulations have revealed how pyramidal molecules are ab…

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Cell conversion technique ‘offers boost for personalised treatments’

Added: 28 Apr 2024

Prospects for personalised treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases could have been boost…

Birmingham’s triage seeks way round drug discovery’s ‘valley of death’

Added: 21 Apr 2024

Birmingham university has shared details of its drug development model, designed to overcome one of…

Scottish testing centre prepares for pioneering Alzheimer’s role

Added: 21 Apr 2024

The University of St Andrews is on course to launch Scotland’s first blood tests for early stage Al…

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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…