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Scientists announce comprehensive regional diagnostic of microbial ocean life using DNA testing

May 4, 2022
Scientists announce comprehensive regional diagnostic of microbial ocean life using DNA testing. Large-scale ‘metabarcoding’ methods could revolutionize how society understands forces that drive the planet’s ability to remove greenhouse gases.

Pandemic a ‘missed opportunity’ to recruit specialists of the future

May 3, 2022
Careers in laboratories must be “made more visible” to encourage more young people into the field and support the growth of life sciences, the head of an international laboratory company...

Augmented Reality helps people live with Parkinson’s disease

April 29, 2022
A collaborative partnership has developed the World's First pair of Parkinson’s Walking Glasses, a wearable mobility device that projects visual cues to facilitate mobility for people with Parkinson’s Disease. Thanks...

Chemical compliance for the medtech industry: new whitepaper

April 27, 2022
Chemical compounds are used both within the constituent materials used to make medical devices and as auxiliary substances during processing, such as lubricants and cleaning agents or for disinfection and...

Two millimetre optical microresonator will improve planetary landing success

April 21, 2022
Smaller, they say, is better in space. A NASA-funded team led by SMU researchers think that their small, lightweight device developed to measure spaceship velocity will improve the odds of...

Biomarker-guided trial opens new avenues for personalised medicine in COVID-19

April 14, 2022
A multi-centre study led by the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) is evaluating one of the first personalised approaches for moderate to severe COVID-19 patients. The innovative biomarkers bio-ADM and DPP3...

Secret of antimatter creation in cosmic collisions revealed

April 14, 2022
At the Quark Matter conference and Rencontres de Moriond conferences, the LHCb collaboration presented an analysis of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that may help determine whether...

Sustainable concept for wood-based textile fibres

April 14, 2022
The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance...

So… What is the point of physics? IOP is offering £1000 for the best answer!

April 7, 2022
IoP launches a new challenge to get young people to see physics differently. With only one in ten parents believing physics to be a worthwhile topic, and nearly half of...

DOE support for scientists impacted by the war in Ukraine

April 6, 2022
The ongoing war in Ukraine presents incredible, heartbreaking challenges to both the country and its people and will continue to do so long after the conflict is resolved. Many universities...

New ‘levelling up’ roadmap: review sets out three ways business can reduce health inequalities

April 5, 2022
A major review of health inequities published on 4 April 2022, lays a roadmap for the role of industry in ‘levelling up’. The UCL Institute of Health Equity in partnership...

UK Space Agency SPRINT funding to support business collaborations with devolved nations universities

April 5, 2022
The national SPRINT (SPace Research and Innovation Network for Technology) business support programme has awarded its latest set of grants to four UK businesses, enabling them to collaborate with Higher...

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