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Bacteriophage therapies: exciting but not new
Added: 18 Jan 2024
Recent interest in this area of antibacterial treatments neglects the fact it has a substantial his…
Looking under the hood of AI
Added: 16 Jan 2024
Royal Institution lecturer Professor Mike Wooldridge expands on the scientific and ethical dimensio…
Covid blow to Turing’s first year but positives too
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Britain’s replacement to the Erasmus Programme scholarships attained less than 60% of its target nu…
Aston £18 mill bid to lead on science and tech
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Aston University is investing £18 million in doctoral research funding to realise its aim of being …
AI responsibility remains in our hands, warns Ri Christmas Lecturer
Added: 18 Dec 2023
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for better decision making but the ‘ethical buck’ stops …
RSC calls for better career access for chemists with disability
Added: 10 Dec 2023
The Royal Society of Chemistry has criticised its sector in a new report charging that it has done …
Community helps overcome challenges of disability in science
Added: 7 Dec 2023
Chantelle Minchin was forced by illness to drop out of her previous university course and decided t…
Robots ‘offer effective intervention in combatting loneliness and negative emotions’
Added: 4 Dec 2023
‘Social’ robots employed during the pandemic to overcome isolation were able to help individuals st…
Aston mourns pharmacy school pioneer Mike Brown
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Aston University Pharmacy School has announced the recent death of Professor Mike Brown, who was in…
One indivisible truth?
Added: 27 Nov 2023
The European Medicines Agency’s vision of a single source of truth for clinical trial information f…
DEFRA data share essential to pandemic preparation urges expert
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Non-healthcare bodies such as DEFRA need to collaborate more fully with healthcare organisations in…
First phase of Oxford’s new 1 million sq. ft lab district begins
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Laing O’Rourke will begin the initial phase of Oxford North’s £700 million new innovation district,…
Shooting the lab
Added: 20 Nov 2023
If a picture tells a thousand words, a short video can do still more in the social media age. Autho…
BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre
Added: 19 Nov 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish t…
Bioinformatician’s data protection work wins 2023 Einstein Prize
Added: 19 Nov 2023
One of the world’s largest prizes for academic research has been awarded to the Belgian bioinformat…
Newly launched firm secures £4.3 million seed funding to target drug-resistant bacteria
Added: 19 Nov 2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company developing precision antibiotic therapies, has raised £4.3 million in …
Sound of the City
Added: 14 Nov 2023
Government hopes to drive UK growth through the life sciences depend upon commercial as well as pub…
Breaking down a breakup
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The seas around Florida provided the opportunity to analyse the movement of the Earth’s crust durin…
Building scientific communities
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in h…
AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater s…
