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Sustainability may impact water security more than economics alone

August 19, 2022
Equality of access among households to water supplies that are clean and plentiful may owe as much or more to sustainable development practices than it does to socioeconomic factors, suggests...

Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report

August 19, 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide differences in awareness and use of transformational digital technology.

Synthetic polymers offer means to bypass gene editing for biocatalysis

August 19, 2022
Scientists believe they have found a way to improve the efficiency of biocatalysis by avoiding the costs and time involved in gene editing methods.

UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films

August 13, 2022
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a magnet for spin-out investment, with a new company that aims to revolutionise...

Warning that 1 in 3 adults will lack higher Covid antibody levels by next vaccination round

August 12, 2022
A continued fall in the number of UK adults with higher level Covid antibody levels makes it likely that well over one third will lack this level of protection by...

MDC and ZEISS join forces to catapult complex medicine development

August 12, 2022
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) the not-for-profit organisation established by Innovate UK, has joined forces with the German-based ZEISS to use advanced microscopy solutions to boost drug discovery and complex medicine...

Oxford spin-out MiroBio bought by biopharma leader for £0.3 billion

August 5, 2022
US biopharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has sealed an agreement to purchase the Oxford University spin-out MiroBio in a deal worth an estimated £332 million (USD$405 million).

Fera Science launches £1million laboratory for insect bioconversion in York

August 5, 2022
Agri-food and environmental science services Fera Science Ltd has opened a £1 million specialist insect laboratory at its York Bioscience Campus.

Pearson NFT plan eyes new revenue stream from secondhand science book sales

August 4, 2022
Pearson is seeking to solve a problem that has dogged science publishers for years: how do you make money from textbooks beyond the first customer purchase?

Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’

July 28, 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its predictions of the structure of most of the more than 200 million known proteins, described as...

BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure

July 28, 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure for inherited heart muscle conditions.

Aniline breakthrough promises cleaner, greener production

July 24, 2022
A ‘cleaner, greener’ method of producing anilines – frequently used in the production of manufacturing products – has been identified by a team at the University of Glasgow.

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