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Heath Secretary thanks you!

April 30, 2020
News
Health Secretary pays tribute to UK life sciences companies, as testing ramps up for COVID-19
Life Sciences
Covid-19
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Predicting heart disease with AI

April 29, 2020
News
A revolutionary new medical device that can predict coronary artery disease – the number one cause of death globally - has been developed by a UK health-tech firm in a...
Life Sciences
Biology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Certified 3D printed face shields for NHS

April 29, 2020
News
Engineers at the University of Nottingham have designed a PPE face shield with CE approval that they are 3D printing at scale for healthcare workers to use in the fight...
Life Sciences
Covid-19, Health, Medical/Health
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Largest Synthetic Polysaccharide Assembled

April 29, 2020
News
Chemists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) have set a milestone by preparing the two largest carbohydrates ever assembled. Using an Automated Glycan Assembly (AGA)...
Chemistry
Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
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Novel potential Covid-19 treatments discovered

April 29, 2020
News
A UK-based biotechnology firm has announced the discovery of two separate novel treatments for Covid-19 patients before they are put on ventilators. They are now urgently seeking funding of £4m...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Open-Source AI-derived drug discovery data to help combat COVID-19

April 27, 2020
News
Recursion, a digital biology company industrialising drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx19 dataset; the first human cellular morphological dataset of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). The human cellular morphological data and over 1,600...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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BIA #TestingMethods2020 Update

April 27, 2020
News
COVID-19 Vaccine trials start in the UK, testing scales up and knowledge economy support package valued by members.
Life Sciences
Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Policy
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Targeted prevention of preterm labour

April 26, 2020
News
A new approach that targets problematic molecular pathway to prevent preterm labour and birth has been identified by research from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Medical/Health
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New collaboration to drive understanding of COVID-19

April 26, 2020
News
A new collaboration between Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins will work to identify target receptors for COVID-19 and advance understanding of the cellular mechanisms of infection by COVID-19.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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One step closer to targeted cancer suppression

April 23, 2020
News
A multi-national team from at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Centre and Case Comprehensive Cancer Centre have identified the binding site for targeted cancer suppression.
Life Sciences
Biology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Oncology
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Ice-free Arctic seas by 2050

April 23, 2020
News
Arctic sea-ice simulations suggest ice-free summers before 2050 despite rapidly reduced carbon emissions. Human impact will intensify the risk of cascading climate change consequences still further if emissions aren’t checked.
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Geology, Geophysics
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CERN takes on Covid-19

April 9, 2020
News
The World’s biggest experiment, CERN, has established a task force to identify and support contributions from the Organization’s global community to combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Engineering, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics
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