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Science mourns Nobel physicist Higgs
Added: 14 Apr 2024
Tributes been made worldwide to Peter Higgs, the Nobel-winning physicist who gave his name to the H…
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…
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…
Study links inbreeding and pregnancy loss in horses
Added: 7 Apr 2024
Mid and late term pregnancy loss among thoroughbred horses appears to correlate significantly with …
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…
Five years beavering bears water for ecologists
Added: 1 Apr 2024
An East Anglian project to reintroduce beavers to the region claims the animals have contributed to…
Biotech chief wins Potts chemistry award
Added: 1 Apr 2024
CEO and founder of biotech Liverpool ChiroChem CEO Dr Paul Colbon has won the prestigious Potts Med…
Scaling the digital mountain
Added: 24 Mar 2024
Hub locations are as much a feature in healthcare as for life sciences in general. Ursula Costa out…
(Almost) one hundred and eighty!
Added: 24 Mar 2024
Time was when three scientific disciplines sufficed, says Russ Swan. They’ve multiplied, to say the…
UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treat…
Three nation European partnership to advance heart disease treatment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The British Heart Foundation (BHF), Dutch Heart Foundation (DHF) and German Centre for Cardiovascul…
Identity crisis?
Added: 18 Mar 2024
When the Royal Society of Chemistry began to tackle the barriers to disabled entrants to the profes…
Scots biotech labs receive vital scale-up boost
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Scottish bio-based business will be able to access a state-of-the-art fermenter vital to develop pr…
The far horizon
Added: 11 Mar 2024
Innovate UK has gone public this year with the research for its list of the top 50 emerging technol…
Pharma/life science survey response deals blow to Sunak’s overtures
Added: 11 Mar 2024
Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s efforts to put life science investment at the heart of the UK’s econom…
Unravelling the secrets of RNA
Added: 4 Mar 2024
Advancing scientific knowledge of plant structures not only improves crop yields but also helps tre…
Farm to gutter: Genomic surveillance to track AMR
Added: 4 Mar 2024
Governments are waking up to the dangers presented by antimicrobial resistance but the focus on cli…
Private R&D investment fall prompts pre-Budget call for action
Added: 3 Mar 2024
In a statement timed ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget, the chief executive of the Na…
Radio waves offer gentler and more efficient way to alter bacteria DNA
Added: 3 Mar 2024
Radio waves have been successfully harnessed to provide a less traumatic means to alter the DNA of …
Jellyfish inspire fast forensics fingerprint breakthrough
Added: 3 Mar 2024
A new water soluble, non-toxic fluorescent spray that renders fingerprints visible in 10 seconds is…
