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MidaTech secure £6.3m through private investment

February 1, 2012
Nanomedicine manufacturer MidaTech has secured £6.3 million through a private investment round to strengthen their product development portfolio.The Abingdon-based company – which design, synthesise and manufacture biocompatible nanoparticles – will...

Let’s go LEGO!

February 1, 2012
From the earliest recoded traces of human culture, to copy something was considered the highest form of flattery. From a rudimentary cave-painting of the best hunter in the clan, to...

Pause on avian flu research

January 26, 2012
A two-month moratorium on studies that make the avian influenza virus H5N1 more transmissible between mammals has been signed by 39 influenza researchers amid fear of bioterrorism.This voluntary pause recommends...

Spring cleaning in space

January 24, 2012
Space is long overdue for a spring clean suggests a NASA-sponsored report which revealed the amount of space junk orbiting the Earth has reached tipping point – but what solutions...

Business or conservation?

January 20, 2012
Welcome one and all to this, your very own 2012! If we seem a little perky for what would ordinarily be a time of year bogged down in the post-party...

Planck has run dry

January 19, 2012
The Planck telescope is about to run out of coolantSince 2009, a mixture of helium-3 and helium-4 has been cooling the light detectors on the Planck telescope to a freezing...

Solar so good

January 19, 2012
In order for solar technology to advance we need to fully understand the impacts of different materials on thermal performance. Here, Peter Davies discusses thermal characterisation of photovoltaic materialsThe solar...

Understanding regulation

January 19, 2012
An unexpected discovery has opened up new opportunities for targeting cancerA team from the University of Leicester have opened up a whole new approach to the therapeutic intervention for a...

Cannabis on the brain

January 19, 2012
For the first time, scientists have gained experimental evidence of the effects of specific chemicals found in cannabis on the brain.Scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London...

NanoSight scoops Business Innovation Award

January 18, 2012
NanoSight has won the Technology World’s 2011 Business Innovation Award for the Energy & Environment category in recognition of their position as world leading providers of nanoparticle characterisation technology.Their nanoparticle...

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