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Science reveals why Roy Keane's like a Rottweiler
Added: 1 Feb 2023
What does Roy Keane have in common with a Rottweiler? Physiologically, quite a lot – or rather a sh…

UK biotech investment plunges 60% from previous year's all-time high
Added: 29 Jan 2023
UK biotech investment for 2022 dropped from the previous year’s all-time record, reveals the latest…

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…

Government aid for healthcare innovation trio welcomed
Added: 22 Jan 2023
InnoScot Health, the private body working with NHS Scotland to drive commercial innovation in the s…

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…

Chemical sector welcomes REACH deadline consultation results
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Chemical sector businesses and organisations have overwhelmingly backed extension of transitional r…

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…

Liverpool industry and academia join forces with new solution to fight hospital infections
Added: 17 Dec 2022
Antimicrobial coatings will be installed on a trial basis for touchscreens and door handles in the …

Discovery Park unveils scheme to grow job opportunities 100% in a decade
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Discovery Park plans to double the number of jobs it provides to around 7,000 over the next decade.…

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…

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…

Imaging breakthrough may provide ASD diagnosis biomarker
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Scientists at Yale University say they have identified a possible biomarker for autism spectrum dis…

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…

Heriot-Watt joint initiative to market medical design
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Heriot-Watt University and Technology Scotland will work together to boost access to sustainable me…

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…

Global initiative aims to identify disease-linked genome variations
Added: 31 Oct 2022
A newly formed international collaborative science project created with the aim of identifying vari…

Online games and brain stimulation offers hope for combating working memory decline
Added: 16 Oct 2022
Tailored online games combined with a form of brain stimulation appear to show significant results …

Global project to measure carbon footprint of clinical trials
Added: 16 Oct 2022
A new international initiative is developing a methodology to assess the respective environmental i…