!

Latest News

1851 Royal Commission Industrial Fellows announced

October 7, 2014
News
Nine young engineers developing world-changing technologies have been awarded Industrial Fellowships from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Each recent graduate will receive £80,000 to fund innovative doctoral...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Brain’s inner GPS wins Nobel Prize

October 6, 2014
News
The inner GPS of the brain, which makes it possible for us to orient ourselves in space has won John O’Keefe, and husband and wife team May-Britt and Edvard Moser...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Physiology
Read More...

IL-25 target for asthma attacks caused by colds

October 6, 2014
News
A small molecule called interleukin-25 might play a central role in asthma attacks brought on by the common cold. The cytokine has been implicated in a sequence of biological events...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Virology
Read More...

£125m to train next generation of bioscientists

October 3, 2014
News
Funding of £125m over the next five years is being made available to support the training and development of 1,250 bioscience students.The funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
Read More...

Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle

October 3, 2014
News
Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT have engineered the bacteria to do just that. By disarming Bacillus anthracis and loading it...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Microbiology
Read More...

Star-shaped molecule created after 25 year effort

October 2, 2014
News
A complex star-shaped molecule of interlocking rings has been created at the University of Manchester following a quarter of a century of research. The molecule, dubbed the Star of David,...
Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry
Read More...

Dry roasting a trigger for peanut allergy

October 1, 2014
News
There is a striking difference between the prevalence of peanut allergies in the Western world and the East and it could be down to the way the nuts are prepared.Dry...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Beverage
Read More...

Superheavy element pairing probes Einstein’s relativity

September 30, 2014
News
Chemists probing the predictive power of trends in the Periodic Table have successfully established a chemical bond between a superheavy element and a carbon atom. The pairing, between seaborgium and...
Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry
Read More...

Happy Birthday CERN!

September 29, 2014
News
Today marks 60 years since the 12 founding member states ratified the CERN convention and the European Organization for Nuclear Research was born.The world's largest particle physics laboratory is celebrating...
Physics & Engineering
Particle Physics, Physics
Read More...

Jamming bacterial ‘shredder’ could fight infection

September 29, 2014
News
By jamming their ‘paper shredder’, scientists might be able to drown deadly bacteria in their own paperwork. Researchers from the University of Leeds have identified how this paper shredder works...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
Read More...

Queen’s to head £6m cancer prevention initiative

September 29, 2014
News
Queen’s University in Belfast are to spearhead a £6 million initiative to find better ways to prevent cancer. The Cancer Prevention Science Initiative aims to support cutting-edge research to find...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Oncology
Read More...

New microscopy technique images living single cells

September 26, 2014
News
A new microscopy technology has allowed scientists to paint a target in a living subject and watch how it works with unprecedented sensitivity and precision. Dubbed Complementation Activated Light Microscopy...
Life Sciences
Cell Biology
Read More...

Pin It on Pinterest