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Vitae Three Minute Thesis victor is second Kingston Uni winner in a row
Added: 30 Sep 2022
Bioengineer Sadaf Akbari beat rivals from nearly 70 universities across the UK and Ireland to win a…
Smart hearing system reads lips of masked speakers
Added: 26 Sep 2022
A hearing aid system under development employs radio frequency sensing paired with artificial intel…
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…
View Nikon Small World in Motion 2022 winners
Added: 12 Sep 2022
View the amazing microscopic images of the finalists in the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion video …
Kidney charity unveils competition for dialysis innovation
Added: 11 Sep 2022
Just weeks after a pioneering dialysis technology won a prestigious engineering award, a leading UK…
Healthcare must learn from experience to combat global challenges for patients’ sake
Added: 22 Aug 2022
With nearly one in 20 of global drug trials affected by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it’s essential…
Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report
Added: 20 Aug 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …
Sustainability may impact water security more than economics alone
Added: 20 Aug 2022
Equality of access among households to water supplies that are clean and plentiful may owe as much …
UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films
Added: 13 Aug 2022
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a ma…
MDC and ZEISS join forces to catapult complex medicine development
Added: 13 Aug 2022
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) the not-for-profit organisation established by Innovate UK, has …
Strathclyde tumour testing tool aims to boost experimentation 50 times
Added: 31 Jul 2022
Testing on solid tumour samples could be increased 50 times, say scientists led by the University o…
BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure
Added: 29 Jul 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure f…
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…
Creating places for people to drive life science
Added: 24 Jul 2022
While technology and collaboration has made it possible for many to consider giving up their commut…
Younger men should drink one third of women’s recommended alcohol intake, warns study
Added: 24 Jul 2022
New advice on the health dangers of alcohol challenges popular assumptions as to which groups are u…
In silico study sheds light on elephants’ cancer resistance
Added: 17 Jul 2022
Elephants’ ability to combat cancer could help develop treatments in humans and also bolster conser…
Setting up a philanthropic genomic testing marketplace
Added: 10 Jul 2022
Mike Hudson tells the story of how one not-for-profit has helped UK Covid testing laboratories and …
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 …
Lack of sustained hypertension treatment undermines health objectives
Added: 9 Jul 2022
Discontinued hypertension treatment in some of the world’s leading middle-income nations is a signi…
Tributes paid to neuroscientist Sir Colin Blakemore
Added: 3 Jul 2022
Scientists and academics have paid tribute to the late professor Sir Colin Blakemore, following his…
