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Gene therapy regenerates heart tissue

May 9, 2019
A coding gene has been shown to regenerate cells in pig hearts, which may help repair structural damage caused by heart attacks. Cardiologists at King’s College London delivered a small...

Medicines Discovery Catapult partners LifeArc for biomarker R&D

May 9, 2019
Medicines Discovery Catapult and LifeArc have announced partnerships to advance R&D in biomarker discovery and proteomics technology. The organisations will develop biomarkers that detect the safety of novel drug molecules...

Endlessly recyclable plastic

May 8, 2019
By separating plastic monomers from chemical additives, researchers may have created fully recyclable plastics. Molecular scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a new type of plastic: polydiketoenamine, or...

Sand ‘bubbles’ flow like liquid

May 3, 2019
Gravitational instabilities in granular particles of different densities could help us understand how structures such as mudslides and volcanoes formed. A Columbia University team layered two types of sand horizontally,...

Antimicrobial microrobots remove biofilms

May 3, 2019
Magnetic microrobots could offer an alternative to antibacterial drugs as a way of destroying biofilms on hard-to-reach surfaces of the tooth. Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania partnered with dentists...

First US based human trial of CRISPR

May 1, 2019
The University of Pennsylvania has announced it has started the first formal US human trial using the technique. Two patients, one with multiple myeloma and one with sarcoma, both of...

House of Lords calls for urgent forensics revamp

May 1, 2019
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has called for urgent reforms to forensic science in England and Wales, which it says is in a state of crisis and...

Research England backs Liverpool postdoc project

April 29, 2019
Research England has announced the first recipient of financing through its new RED Fund. The organization, part of UK Research and Innovation, will contribute £3.6 million to a University of...

Medicines Discovery Catapult adds 22 CROs

April 26, 2019
Medicines Discovery Catapult has launched partnerships with 22 UK-based contract research organisations to boost life sciences R&D. The CROs will join Medicines Discovery Catapult’s Virtual R&D Discovery Services platform, which...

BioCity invests in carbon recycling startup

April 25, 2019
Science incubator BioCity has invested an undisclosed amount in Deep Branch Biotechnology, a Nottingham-based carbon recycling startup. The investment will cover construction costs of a mobile production unit, enabling Deep...

NASA detects likely marsquake

April 24, 2019
Seismic activity has been detected on a planet other than Earth for the first time. NASA's InSight space lander detected faint activity from the interior of Mars on April 6,...

Life science accelerator launches in Cambridge

April 24, 2019
A new acceleration programme will bring life science and heathcare startups to Cambridge. Start Codon, announced by Cambridge Innovation Capital, will recruit up to 50 startups from the UK and...

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