All Medical/Health


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…

Dr Chris van Tulleken to deliver 2024 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Added: 25 Aug 2024

Science broadcaster Dr Chris van Tulleken will deliver this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lect…

Cold cure

Added: 19 Aug 2024

Power-intensive equipment such as fridges and freezers significantly impact energy conservation in …

Speedy separation offers tool for microplastics and cancer cell studies

Added: 17 Aug 2024

Researchers in Sweden have pinpointed a method to speed the separation of particles in fluids, prov…

Unveiling the ripple effect

Added: 12 Aug 2024

Dr Gen Li returns to the theme of how the war in Ukraine has impacted global clinical development a…

Focus on the foreign to life

Added: 12 Aug 2024

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

Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine

Added: 11 Aug 2024

The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-me…

PacBio-Singapore project to create largest SE Asian genome dataset

Added: 11 Aug 2024

Singapore’s National Precision Medicine (NPM) Programme and genomic sequencing leader PacBio have e…

The evolution of CRISPR cell line technology

Added: 6 Aug 2024

CRISPR technology’s initial applications were primarily focused on targeted genome editing, but its…

Scientists hijack brain parasite for new therapy delivery vehicle

Added: 3 Aug 2024

Harmful brain parasites could be effectively hijacked as vehicles for therapeutic treatment for neu…

Real time tracking could slash millions from bill for lost NHS lab samples

Added: 2 Aug 2024

Supermarket style product tracking piloted at a Leeds hospital could be used to cut the NHS’s mammo…

Nuclear arsenal

Added: 29 Jul 2024

Advances in benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance instrumentation have brought the benefits of NMR sp…

Smart spoon ‘restores’ dementia sufferers’ taste buds

Added: 29 Jul 2024

Loss of taste is one of the many symptoms of dementia and one that not only impacts sufferers’ qual…

Baby camels identified as key factor in animal to human MERS virus transmission 

Added: 29 Jul 2024

Young camels have been identified as a significant contributor in exposing humans to the potentiall…

Research reveals misbehaving genes in healthy humans 

Added: 29 Jul 2024

So-called ‘gene misbehaviour’ within the bodies of healthy human beings is far more widespread than…

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…

RSB and Pirbright launch new biorisk professional registration scheme

Added: 13 Jul 2024

The Royal Society of Biology and the Pirbright Institute have launched a new professional registrat…

Vallance assumes key science ministerial role

Added: 7 Jul 2024

Former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has joined the newly elected Labour administra…

Smart clothes are the new cutting edge of physio tech

Added: 7 Jul 2024

Smart phones and watches may have met their match from a surprising source when it comes to trackin…