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Fulbright Award for CMU academic’s ground-breaking organ storage research
Added: 23 Jul 2023
An academic from Cardiff Metropolitan University has received a prestigious Fulbright Award to enab…
Mass spectrometry offers means to assess protein ‘glues’
Added: 18 Jun 2023
Mass spectrometry can provide medical research with the means to harness protein interactions for r…
Pioneering Saudi astronaut completes space/earth experiment
Added: 4 Jun 2023
Pioneering Saudi female astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi has concluded a series of experiments aboard the…
Pirbright virus programmes receive quarter share of new £0.3 billion research funding
Added: 29 May 2023
Nearly a quarter of a £0.37 billion new scientific funding package has been awarded to one of the U…
Royal Assent opens door to gene edited food in UK
Added: 29 Mar 2023
The granting of Royal Assent for the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act has finally opened…
Bids process to share in £3 million Cystic Fibrosis funds opens
Added: 20 Mar 2023
Applications are invited for a share of £3 million investment to accelerate the development of new …
Putin invasion has seen loss of two out of three clinical investigator sites in Ukraine and Russia
Added: 12 Mar 2023
The number of recruiting clinical investigator sites in the countries most impacted by the invasion…
Kind to animals, kind to plants… lab’s ethical fragrance
Added: 5 Mar 2023
Scientists funded by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) have turned parfumiers…
Replicating viruses work together to thwart opponents
Added: 19 Feb 2023
New research into the cooperative and competitive behaviour of viruses in the human body could help…
UK research teams share £2.5 million kidney funding boost
Added: 3 Feb 2023
Fourteen projects focused on kidney disease treatment are to share one of the most sizeable funding…
Medicines Discovery Catapult and SMi gain funding for ‘one second’ biomarker technology
Added: 29 Jan 2023
A project that aims to detect several cancer-associated biomarkers from a single blood sample in un…
Judges announced for £4 million Longitude Prize for AI-assisted dementia technology
Added: 23 Jan 2023
Leading figures from academia, charities and medical institutions are among the judges chosen for t…
Breast cancer studies top global clinical trials for 2022
Added: 15 Jan 2023
Breast cancer remains the most studied disease according to recent global analysis of thousands of …
UK’s second largest biobank eyes 1 million samples in first year
Added: 15 Jan 2023
BioGrad is set to open the country's second largest biobank facility within a £7.6 million investme…
NASA awaits return of landmark space experiments cargo
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Samples from pioneering experiments into radiation, hydroponics and bioprospecting in microgravity …
LifeArc pairs with Euro partner to improve respiratory disease outcomes
Added: 17 Dec 2022
Life science charity LifeArc has embarked on a three year partnership with the European Multicentre…
UK poised to be world-leading lab-grown meat producer, claims patent firm
Added: 17 Dec 2022
The United Kingdom is on course to play a major international role in the development of lab-grown …
Start-up raises £0.5 million-plus towards hard tumour immunotherapy goal
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Start-up Neobe Therapeutics has raised £520K towards financing its endeavours to reduce barriers to…
Birmingham Uni institute’s Arlt to be new MRC London Institute Director
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Award-winning clinical endocrinologist Professor Wiebke Arlt will be the new Director of the Medica…
Data explosion threatens Catch 22 for pathogen research
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Science’s efforts to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being hampered by th…
