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‘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…

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…
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…

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…

Translating to liquid assets
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Biotech ValiRx’s new spin-out prompted its evolution from a virtual operation to encompass wet labs…

Fox Foundation and bit.bio announce first Parkinson’s project
Added: 10 Mar 2024
The Michael J Fox Foundation and Cambridge synthetic biology company bit.bio have announced their f…

Gates Foundation grant opens door to PhaSER project acceleration
Added: 25 Feb 2024
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted Edinburgh’s PhaSER Biomedical a US$2.3 million gran…

Aston-Warwick initiative wins key UKRI funds
Added: 11 Feb 2024
A joint team from Aston and Warwick universities and the University of Warwick have won nearly £2 m…

Anglo-Norwegian study casts light on treatment resistant bacteria
Added: 4 Feb 2024
A study comparing the UK and Norway over two decades, has concluded that antibiotic use may drive a…

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…

Flower power inspires drug cell breakthrough
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Bath university scientists have borrowed from nature to develop more stable versions of proteins an…

Aston mourns pharmacy school pioneer Mike Brown
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Aston University Pharmacy School has announced the recent death of Professor Mike Brown, who was in…

Achieving an animal free IHC
Added: 13 Nov 2023
With alternative technologies available, we should be seeking antibody alternatives that avoid the …

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 …

Innovate UK grants £1.6 million to boost oligonucleotide therapeutics manufacture with machine learning
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Cambridge-based software company Intellegens has secured a £1.6 million grant from Innovate UK, par…

BDD wins £2 million investment to expand early phase clinical trials
Added: 20 Aug 2023
Clinical trials company BDD has secured a further round of investment for £2 million to aid expansi…
Siemens supports Indivior to set new standards with automated plant in Hull
Added: 20 Aug 2023
Siemens is supporting global manufacturer of addiction and mental health treatment medicines Indivi…

Scottish researchers seek to turn plastic waste into pharmaceuticals
Added: 30 Jul 2023
A new project led by Scottish researchers is aiming to revolutionise the pharmaceutical industry by…

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 …

Pines and paper alleviate science's sustainable pain killer headache
Added: 9 Jul 2023
Bath University's Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability has revealed a sustainab…