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Call for targeted approach to boost bird-friendly farming

January 8, 2023
Threatened farmland bird species would benefit from a more strategic investment of resources rather than an applying a uniform approach to UK agriculture, suggests a new study.

LifeArc pairs with Euro partner to improve respiratory disease outcomes

December 17, 2022
Life science charity LifeArc has embarked on a three year partnership with the European Multicentre Bronchiectasis Audit and Research Collaboration (EMBARC) to tackle the respiratory disease bronchiectasis.

Liverpool industry and academia join forces with new solution to fight hospital infections

December 17, 2022
Antimicrobial coatings will be installed on a trial basis for touchscreens and door handles in the newly opened Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

UK poised to be world-leading lab-grown meat producer, claims patent firm

December 17, 2022
The United Kingdom is on course to play a major international role in the development of lab-grown ‘cultured’ meat, claims leading intellectual property specialists GovGrant.

Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme 

December 11, 2022
Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images into a single system that will enable it to manage approximately 2 million examinations annually.

Automated material analysis offers cut to cost and human error 

December 4, 2022
Researchers in Japan have developed a method to automate a mathematical procedure used to analyse X-ray diffraction data, potentially providing a means to save materials scientists time and expenditure.

Multi-million award to scale up uni lab’s cyber-crime solution research

December 4, 2022
Heriot-Watt University academic Mehul Malik has been awarded £2.5 million from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) for his research into quantum technologies with the capacity to provide next-level defence...

Lab’s failures led to nearly 40,000 false negative COVID tests, says UKHSA

November 29, 2022
A clinic set up just months after the initial outbreak of Covid-19 cases in the UK issued thousands of infected people with negative results before its testing commission was suspended.

Imaging breakthrough may provide ASD diagnosis biomarker

November 27, 2022
Scientists at Yale University say they have identified a possible biomarker for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), based upon one of the condition’s common hallmarks.

Start-up raises £0.5 million-plus towards hard tumour immunotherapy goal

November 27, 2022
Start-up Neobe Therapeutics has raised £520K towards financing its endeavours to reduce barriers to immunotherapy in cancer patients with solid tumours.

Birmingham Uni institute’s Arlt to be new MRC London Institute Director

November 27, 2022
Award-winning clinical endocrinologist Professor Wiebke Arlt will be the new Director of the Medical Research Council London Institute of Medical Sciences from 1 January.

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