Articles tagged with "Chemistry"

Sort by

Warning that 1 in 3 adults will lack higher Covid antibody levels by next vaccination round

August 12, 2022
A continued fall in the number of UK adults with higher level Covid antibody levels makes it likely that well over one third will lack this level of protection by...

Oxford spin-out MiroBio bought by biopharma leader for £0.3 billion

August 5, 2022
US biopharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has sealed an agreement to purchase the Oxford University spin-out MiroBio in a deal worth an estimated £332 million (USD$405 million).

BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure

July 28, 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure for inherited heart muscle conditions.

Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’

July 28, 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its predictions of the structure of most of the more than 200 million known proteins, described as...

How to implement data-driven R&D

July 17, 2022
While helping his colleague Peter Rhodes prepare for a talk hosted by Lab News at CHEMUK 2022, Max Petersen delved deeper into why chemical and materials companies seeking to drive...

Setting up a philanthropic genomic testing marketplace

July 10, 2022
Mike Hudson tells the story of how one not-for-profit has helped UK Covid testing laboratories and generated £2.5 million for good causes over the past two years. Now, the team...

Portable spectroscopy: Taking the spectrometer to the sample

July 10, 2022
There are times when it just isn’t efficient enough to send samples to the lab for testing. Richard Crocombe outlines advances in portable spectroscopy and which instruments to use for...

Time for masks not musical chairs, health secretary told

July 9, 2022
Incoming health secretary Steve Barclay has been urged to reintroduce the wearing of facemasks and purchase top-up vaccine against Omicron COVID-19 variants.

Leading chemical and utility firms join RSC polymer sustainability task force

July 2, 2022
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced four leading industry recruits have joined its Sustainable Polymers in Liquid Formulation (PLFs) task force.

Turning drought into opportunity

June 29, 2022
Mineral physics can help provide a solution to water shortage and its applications may not be limited only to our own world, suggests Sabrina Lautin.

Pin It on Pinterest