All Medical/Health

Six degrees of separation
Added: 20 May 2024
Labs play an essential role in advancing sustainability in the wider world but they need to tackle …

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…

UK-Swiss project harnesses tech to lower cell and gene therapies cost
Added: 20 May 2024
Innovation agencies in the UK and Switzerland have together invested more than three quarters of a …

Plummeting SME financing threatens UK llfe science, warns report
Added: 13 May 2024
SME financing for the UK medicines pipeline plunged 43% between 2020 and 2022, suggests the Medicin…

‘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…

Human placenta map offers hope against pregnancy threats
Added: 6 May 2024
Pregnancy safe therapies for deadly diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria could be b…

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…

Purpose before profit: Antonia Seymour, IOPP
Added: 28 Apr 2024
IOPP’s Antonia Seymour outlines why the publisher has joined forces with AIP Publishing and the Ame…

‘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…

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…

The evolution of CRISPR cell line technology
Added: 22 Apr 2024
CRISPR technology’s initial applications were primarily focused on targeted genome editing, but its…

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…

Look to your assets
Added: 15 Apr 2024
Waste reduction or recycling is usually the focus for driving greener practice in the lab but what …

‘Heartphone’ tracker could revolutionise disease prevention
Added: 14 Apr 2024
The popularity of the smartphone could provide significant advances in the rate of detection of hea…

Playing it cool
Added: 8 Apr 2024
In the lab, the need for effective temperature control is a given. And as demands have increased, s…

Global forum’s cash challenge to boost cardiovascular funding
Added: 7 Apr 2024
The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), has announced a new cash prize aimed at i…

Science in the round
Added: 2 Apr 2024
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) remains one of Europe’s largest multidisciplin…

PacBio system to assist Estonia’s national genome scheme
Added: 1 Apr 2024
Estonia’s University of Tartu has chosen PacBio’s Revio HiFi sequencing system for the next stage o…