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Uni receives quarter million lab funding despite widespread NSF cuts

October 11, 2025
News
America’s Hawai’i Pacific University (HPU) has received a two year grant of nearly US$243,780 for rare earth metal research designed to boost undergraduate experience of professional lab work.
Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Geology, Materials, Materials Science
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UK science institutions ‘vulnerable’ to political interference, warns report

October 9, 2025
News
Leading UK scientific institutions such as the Met Office and the UK Health Security Agency lack sufficient defences to prevent potential political interference, claims a new report.
Uncategorised
Policy
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Immunology, quantum and MOF dominate Nobel Prizes for science

October 8, 2025
News
Nine new Nobel Prize laureates have shared the three award categories for physiology/medicine, physics and chemistry.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Immunology, Materials, Pharmaceutical, Quantum Physics
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November 5 deadline for AMR innovators to share PACE £6 million

October 6, 2025
News
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.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Laboratory News new issue: is science publishing too obsessed with citation?

October 5, 2025
News
Science publishing has become too focused on achieving citations at the expense of advancing knowledge, claims an industry critic.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Cell Biology, Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Health, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Molecular Biology, Policy
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Molecule demonstrates success controlling Parkinson’s-associated protein behaviour

October 5, 2025
News
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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Cell Biology, Drug Discovery, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical
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UK’s rarest reptile takes firmer hold in Devon

September 28, 2025
News
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.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Soil Science, Zoology
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Scaffolding cells could be key to targeting diseases, says study

September 27, 2025
News
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.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Cell Biology, Drug Discovery, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmacology
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Huntington’s result ‘could boost’ ALS/frontotemporal dementia therapy

September 25, 2025
News
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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Cell Biology, Drug Discovery, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Research identifies a culprit behind cancer immunotherapy failures

September 20, 2025
News
A joint UK-Finland academic project has provided new evidence about a longstanding cancer treatment issue: why does immunotherapy fail for many patients?
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Oncology, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Oxford’s example ‘could generate massive boost to regional spin-outs’

September 20, 2025
News
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...
Life Sciences
Life Sciences, Policy
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Nuclear associations’ deal aims to foster greater US-UK exchange 

September 18, 2025
News
The UK’s Nuclear Institute and the American Nuclear Society (ANS) have signed an agreement to offer reciprocal membership.
Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Engineering, Environment, Materials Science, Physics, Policy
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