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Neuroscience project receives €89m

October 21, 2016
The European Commission has released a payment of €89m for the Human Brain Project.

Short telomere length in newborns linked to mother’s weight

October 18, 2016
Belgian researchers have found that a high BMI in mothers before pregnancy is associated with shorter telomere length – a marker for biological age – in newborns.

Alzheimer’s symptoms reduced in gene therapy trial

October 18, 2016
Researchers have revealed results of a successful trial injecting viruses into mice to reduce the effects of Alzheimer’s.

It’s biology Jim, but not as we know it…

October 13, 2016
After his appearance at Lab Innovations – we hear from physicist and all-round science hero Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE on the strange world of quantum biology

Climbing Everest

October 8, 2016
Greg Foot, Science Presenter on the BBC and YouTube will be speaking at Lab Innovations 2016, the UK’s leading event dedicated to laboratory professionals, which returns to Birmingham’s NEC on...

2017 Eppendorf Awards open

October 6, 2016
Entries are being welcomed for the 2017 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators.

Industrial Fellowships for promising researchers

October 5, 2016
The Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 has awarded 10 early-career engineers and scientists £80,000 each to fund potential profitable technologies.

Cell digestion research wins 2016 Nobel Prize

October 3, 2016
Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for his work on autophagy — the degradation and recycling of cellular components.

Habitat preservation crucial for turtle and tortoise survival

October 3, 2016
The survival of turtles and tortoises is more dependent on habitat degradation than rising global temperatures, according to University of Bristol researchers.

New sensor technology accelerates blood analysis

September 27, 2016
Scientists in York have developed a sensor capable of detecting multiple proteins and enzymes in smaller blood samples. The biosensor consists of small nanosized devices that resonate at a specific...

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