All Medical/Health

Synthetic affinity reagents: new possibilities for diagnostics
Added: 24 Apr 2023
Fast and effective diagnostic testing is key to disease management but a challenge for antibody-bas…

Collaboration on life sciences – do we need the UK?
Added: 17 Apr 2023
Undoubtedly, yes, says Jan Wauters. The benefits to Britain and Europe are too great, he argues, an…

Wearable tech enhances potential for friends-based mental health support
Added: 15 Apr 2023
Wearable tech that shares data between small circles of close friends and relations could provide a…

Royal Assent opens door to gene edited food in UK
Added: 29 Mar 2023
The granting of Royal Assent for the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act has finally opened…

‘Ramp up diagnostic techniques or risk Avian flu spill-over’
Added: 26 Mar 2023
The co-founder of healthtech company Pictura Bio says the UK’s diagnostic testing capacity is not s…

World University rankings hat trick for Royal Veterinary College
Added: 22 Mar 2023
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has scored a hat trick of three consecutive first place entries …

Game Theory: Genotype
Added: 20 Mar 2023
Based on Mendelian genetics, Genotype is absorbing and challenging, say Dr Louise Robinson and Dr I…

Bids process to share in £3 million Cystic Fibrosis funds opens
Added: 20 Mar 2023
Applications are invited for a share of £3 million investment to accelerate the development of new …

Light shined like a neon show
Added: 12 Mar 2023
Good quality visuals help convey information in research papers. Contrary to what many scientists s…

Putin invasion has seen loss of two out of three clinical investigator sites in Ukraine and Russia
Added: 12 Mar 2023
The number of recruiting clinical investigator sites in the countries most impacted by the invasion…

Birmingham obesity research could herald novel therapy
Added: 12 Mar 2023
The PEPITEM immunopeptide could help combat the risk of obesity-related diseases including type 2 d…

Kind to animals, kind to plants… lab’s ethical fragrance
Added: 5 Mar 2023
Scientists funded by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) have turned parfumiers…

Northern Ireland deal appears to boost UK’s Horizon Europe hopes
Added: 1 Mar 2023
Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s achievement of an agreed new Northern Ireland protocol with his Europe…

Treasury opts for stealth to ‘announce’ takeback of £1.6 bill EU Horizon funds
Added: 23 Feb 2023
Some £1.6 billion in funds allocated for scientific research has been taken back by the Treasury.
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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…

Enhanced computer modelling offers improved training for trainee surgeons
Added: 12 Feb 2023
Modelling improvements have enabled a research team at Bristol University to refine the use of virt…

Scientific nesting places
Added: 6 Feb 2023
If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…

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…