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Immunology, quantum and MOF dominate Nobel Prizes for science

October 8, 2025
Nine new Nobel Prize laureates have shared the three award categories for physiology/medicine, physics and chemistry.

November 5 deadline for AMR innovators to share PACE £6 million

October 6, 2025
One of the UK’s largest public-private initiatives for antimicrobial drug and diagnostic development is inviting participants for its third funding round, in aid of global health.

Laboratory News new issue: is science publishing too obsessed with citation?

October 5, 2025
Science publishing has become too focused on achieving citations at the expense of advancing knowledge, claims an industry critic.

Molecule demonstrates success controlling Parkinson’s-associated protein behaviour

October 5, 2025
A so-called peptide switch developed by university scientists could offer a means to prevent the build-up of the alpha-synuclein protein associated with the development of Parkinson’s disease, say the scientists...

UK’s rarest reptile takes firmer hold in Devon

September 28, 2025
Conservation efforts to save Britain’s rarest native reptile have resulted in a 25% year on year increase in numbers at a key site in the west country.

Scaffolding cells could be key to targeting diseases, says study

September 27, 2025
Fibroblasts which produce proteins vital to the framework for the body’s cells and tissues could provide a universal drug target against a range of diseases, suggests newly-published research.

Huntington’s result ‘could boost’ ALS/frontotemporal dementia therapy

September 25, 2025
Recent clinical success in combatting the effects of Huntington’s disease could herald wider advances in treating a range of other resistant conditions, says a spokesman for leading gene sequencing biotech...

Research identifies a culprit behind cancer immunotherapy failures

September 20, 2025
A joint UK-Finland academic project has provided new evidence about a longstanding cancer treatment issue: why does immunotherapy fail for many patients?

Oxford’s example ‘could generate massive boost to regional spin-outs’

September 20, 2025
An extra £15 billion in funding for UK university spin-outs over the next decade could generate nearly twice that figure in co-investments and create thousands of life science and related...

Phase 2 trials underway for new pneumococcal disease vaccine

September 14, 2025
Trials are underway on a £3.2 million-funded new vaccine to tackle the presence pneumococcal disease, a leading preventable cause of child deaths.

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