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Heriot-Watt project wins £0.75 mill for alternative to painful cancer biopsies
Added: 26 Aug 2024
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are developing a new method of identifying cancerous DNA whic…

Blood thinner threatens to take the sting out of cobra’s deadly bite
Added: 22 Jul 2024
CRISPR gene editing technology has enabled scientists at the University of Sydney and Liverpool Sch…

Global forum’s cash challenge to boost cardiovascular funding
Added: 7 Apr 2024
The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), has announced a new cash prize aimed at i…

PacBio system to assist Estonia’s national genome scheme
Added: 1 Apr 2024
Estonia’s University of Tartu has chosen PacBio’s Revio HiFi sequencing system for the next stage o…

UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treat…

Three nation European partnership to advance heart disease treatment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The British Heart Foundation (BHF), Dutch Heart Foundation (DHF) and German Centre for Cardiovascul…

BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre
Added: 19 Nov 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish t…

Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients
Added: 16 Oct 2023
Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged …

Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images i…

Health data project appeals for 5 million UK volunteers
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Five million UK adults are being invited to participate in one of the largest and most ambitious he…

Kidney charity unveils competition for dialysis innovation
Added: 11 Sep 2022
Just weeks after a pioneering dialysis technology won a prestigious engineering award, a leading UK…

Precision initiative offers £0.3 million for person-centred medicine
Added: 27 Aug 2022
Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (PMS-IC) has launched a fund offering up to £0.3 mill…

Time for masks not musical chairs, health secretary told
Added: 9 Jul 2022
Incoming health secretary Steve Barclay has been urged to reintroduce the wearing of facemasks and …

Researchers discover how lactic acid weakens anti-tumour defences
Added: 4 Feb 2022
In cancer research, it has long been known that lactic acid, or lactate, is produced in large quant…

New microscope uses photonics to gain insights into ‘superbugs’
Added: 25 Nov 2021
Scientists are building a new super-resolution microscope that uses laser light to study the inner …

Olympus Image of the Year Award 2021
Added: 4 Nov 2021
Olympus has just launched its third Image of the Year contest and is accepting entries. Each year, …

Potential new treatment for COVID-19 identified
Added: 1 Nov 2021
Researchers have identified a potential new treatment that suppresses the replication of SARS-CoV-2…

Trans-disciplinary approaches reveal important disease transmission dynamics
Added: 4 Oct 2021
New research reveals the complex multi-host-species and multi-parasite-species disease transmission…

New potential factor contributing to severity of COVID-19 identified
Added: 27 Sep 2021
Researchers have found that the so-called 'do not eat me', virus-induced signal protein, CD47, may …

European Parliament votes in favour of EU plan to replace animal experiments with cutting-edge science
Added: 20 Sep 2021
The European Parliament has embraced an historic opportunity to take animal suffering out of the eq…
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