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Cross Sense smart specs win Longitude dementia award £1mill grand prize

March 21, 2026
CrossSense, the smart glasses-based AI assistant designed to help early stage dementia sufferers with daily life tasks, has won the Longitude Prize’s long awaited grand award. The final and largest...

Quantitative analysis of microplastics in shellfish using pyrolysis GCMS

March 16, 2026
Many analytical techniques are capable of quantifying microplastics and those larger than 20µm can be analysed by FTIR and Raman spectroscopy on a count-based method. It is impossible to analyse...

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Gut health issues ‘raise risk for heart failure patients’

March 13, 2026
People with heart failure have 8% more chance of being hospitalised or dying if they also have poor gut health, says a study from the University of Leicester.

Collaborators apply intelligence to create smart telescopes

March 12, 2026
Britain’s Hartree Centre facility has teamed with one of Africa’s leading astronomical institutions to develop an ‘intelligent observatory’ programme featuring smart, automated telescopes. The Hartree, which specialises in AI, high...

Consultation measures support for fast track access to medical device imports

March 11, 2026
Plans to speed up access to new healthcare devices by aligning regulation with the European Union and ‘comparable’ countries will be open to stakeholder consultation until early next month.

NMRC site provides first ‘terrestrial anchor’ for UK space manufacturing

March 4, 2026
Work has finished on what will be the UK’s first in-space manufacturing hub, the new National Microgravity Research Centre (NMRC) based in South Wales.

Bath combines biology and chemistry to thwart cancer drivers

March 4, 2026
University of Bath researchers are harnessing bacteria to develop millions of potential drug molecules inside living cells, in order to speed therapy development to combat hard-to-treat cancers.

UK built detector components arrive in US for flagship neutrino experiment

March 4, 2026
Four ‘building-sized’ components which will play an essential role in the UK contribution to an ambitious international physics project have been shipped to the United States from the Daresbury Laboratory.

Ellison purchase swells Triangle’s lab space market but problems remain

March 1, 2026
Oxfordshire, a key part of UK life sciences’ Golden Triangle region, had an annual take-up of lab space last year amounting to 620,200 sq ft, says estate agent Bidwells.

Stratech acquisition signals further expansion for Europa Biosite

March 1, 2026
Cambridge Bioscience has purchased its fellow life sciences product distributor Stratech Scientific, in a move that further extends the reach of parent company Europa Biosite.

Whale research suggests older lovers may have the best tunes

March 1, 2026
Declines in commercial whaling have produced a notable demographic change in humpback whale populations: a growth in the proportion of older fathers.

New owner welcomes acquisition of Laboratory News

February 22, 2026
Laboratory News has a new owner, following its acquisition by the pharmaceutical and healthcare publisher PMGroup Worldwide Ltd.

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