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Huntington’s result ‘could boost’ ALS/frontotemporal dementia therapy

September 25, 2025
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Recent clinical success in combatting the effects of Huntington’s disease could herald wider advances in treating a range of other resistant conditions, says a spokesman for leading gene sequencing biotech...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Cell Biology, Drug Discovery, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Research identifies a culprit behind cancer immunotherapy failures

September 20, 2025
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A joint UK-Finland academic project has provided new evidence about a longstanding cancer treatment issue: why does immunotherapy fail for many patients?
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Oncology, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Oxford’s example ‘could generate massive boost to regional spin-outs’

September 20, 2025
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An extra £15 billion in funding for UK university spin-outs over the next decade could generate nearly twice that figure in co-investments and create thousands of life science and related...
Life Sciences
Life Sciences, Policy
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Nuclear associations’ deal aims to foster greater US-UK exchange 

September 18, 2025
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The UK’s Nuclear Institute and the American Nuclear Society (ANS) have signed an agreement to offer reciprocal membership.
Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Engineering, Environment, Materials Science, Physics, Policy
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Phase 2 trials underway for new pneumococcal disease vaccine

September 14, 2025
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Trials are underway on a £3.2 million-funded new vaccine to tackle the presence pneumococcal disease, a leading preventable cause of child deaths.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Durham takes quality control ITERations to a new level

September 13, 2025
News
One of the biggest quality checks ever attempted on superconducting materials has been completed by Durham University researchers.
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Materials, Materials Science
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ABPI and NCUB: lack of competitiveness undermining UK life sciences

September 13, 2025
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Britain’s place as a global leader in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors has plunged in recent years, suggests a new industry report.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Spin-out’s £10 million aims to replace 10 billion single use plastic items

September 6, 2025
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Cambridge university spin-out Xampla has won investment worth millions to enable it to develop plant-based polymers capable of replacing single-use plastics.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Earth & Environmental, Environment, Green Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Policy
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Psychedelics compounds used to combat inflammatory conditions

September 6, 2025
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Birmingham researchers aim to establish whether psychedelic drugs can be harnessed to combat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical
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AI claims another job: robot choreographer

September 6, 2025
News
Lab produced algorithms may have solved a key challenge for today’s automated factories and might further remove human interventions.
Physics & Engineering
Computer Science, Engineering, Physics
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Chemical ‘LEGO’ hints at life’s origins

August 31, 2025
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Scientists have succeeded in linking amino acids with ribonucleic acid (RNA) to suggest how the pairing might have occurred spontaneously at the origin of life.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Organic Chemistry, Proteomics & Genomics
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Hearing pioneer James Hudspeth dies aged 79

August 23, 2025
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A. James Hudspeth, the American neuroscientist credited with discovering how the inner ear translates sound into signals for the brain, has died at the age of 79.
Life Sciences
Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Physiology
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