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Pistoia survey reveals AI is top tech investment for life sciences

September 19, 2023
AI and Machine Learning will be the top tech investment for life science companies over the next two years, suggests a new survey from The Pistoia Alliance in partnership with...

MRC £2 million targets hard to treat cancers

September 16, 2023
Cancers with notably poor survival rates are the targets of a £2 million Medical Research Council intervention to support researchers.

Plants and particles win Turlings and Shchutska top Swiss science awards

September 16, 2023
Biologist Ted Turlings and physicist Lesya Shchutska are this year’s winners of the the two highest awards in Swiss Science, the Marcel Benoist and Latsis prizes.

Lab News latest edition: Toxic testing in the field, tackling waste, consent and the clinic and more

September 11, 2023
Arable farming the sea, real time toxicity testing, the phage revival, clinical consent and why heavy industry could teach life science about tackling waste.

Funding for vaccine to tackle cause of UK pig herds’ major respiratory threat

September 9, 2023
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council are funding the Royal Veterinary College efforts to develop vaccines to tackle the most...

Nottingham uni spin-out secures UKRI £1 million for gene therapy tech

September 6, 2023
University of Nottingham spin-outTherageniX and collaborator the University of Nottingham, have been awarded a £995,000 grant from Innovate UK.

RVC’s Webster ‘honoured’ to receive prized Leeuwenhoek Medal

September 5, 2023
Professor of Parasitic Diseases at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) Joanne Webster has been awarded the Royal Society’s prestigious Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture, which recognises and celebrates outstanding contributions to...

100 Technicians share Hauksbee Award honours

September 4, 2023
One hundred technicians working in a range of sectors and campaigning to raise their profession’s profile and skills shortages have been honoured en masse for their efforts with young audiences.

Joint study says earlier mental health care could save £600 million and improve 7 million lives 

September 4, 2023
Shortening treatment and waiting times for mental health conditions from 12 months to three months could reduce the financial burden on the NHS and improve treatment outcomes and therefore quality...

Innovate UK grants £1.6 million to boost oligonucleotide therapeutics manufacture with machine learning

September 4, 2023
Cambridge-based software company Intellegens has secured a £1.6 million grant from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), to apply machine learning in the emerging field of oligonucleotide...

Quantum go-‘slow’ allows first view of chemical process

August 28, 2023
Sydney university researchers have scored a scientific first by employing a quantum computer to observe a process critical in chemical reactions.

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