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Dr Chris van Tulleken to deliver 2024 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Added: 25 Aug 2024
Science broadcaster Dr Chris van Tulleken will deliver this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lect…
Mystery of Kaspar Hauser solved, leaving another enigma
Added: 11 Aug 2024
The scientist responsible for confirming the identity of Richard III’s corpse has disproved a two c…
PacBio-Singapore project to create largest SE Asian genome dataset
Added: 11 Aug 2024
Singapore’s National Precision Medicine (NPM) Programme and genomic sequencing leader PacBio have e…
Smart spoon ‘restores’ dementia sufferers’ taste buds
Added: 29 Jul 2024
Loss of taste is one of the many symptoms of dementia and one that not only impacts sufferers’ qual…
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…
Pistoia initiative seeks to counter slow take-up of animal free testing
Added: 13 Jul 2024
More than three quarters of R&D respondents to a new survey by the global Pistoia Alliance say they…
Government urged to put clinical signup on NHS app
Added: 7 Jul 2024
Labour must include a clinical trials option for patients as part of its commitment to extend the s…
Welcome for Euro IVD amendment
Added: 23 Jun 2024
EU action to avoid an impending compliance deadline for manufacturers causing a widespread shortage…
Bruntwood scheme promises top level support to life science innovators
Added: 3 Jun 2024
Bruntwood SciTech has launched a new programme with significant government funding to provide suppo…
Data shows higher heart failure death risk for ethnic minorities
Added: 3 Jun 2024
Analysis of nearly 17,000 patients’ data reveals ethnic minority patients with heart failure have a…
UK-Swiss project harnesses tech to lower cell and gene therapies cost
Added: 20 May 2024
Innovation agencies in the UK and Switzerland have together invested more than three quarters of a …
Plummeting SME financing threatens UK llfe science, warns report
Added: 13 May 2024
SME financing for the UK medicines pipeline plunged 43% between 2020 and 2022, suggests the Medicin…
‘Citizen army’ sought to assess Scotland’s mosquito threat
Added: 13 May 2024
Citizen scientists are being recruited to help a collaborative project led by an alliance of academ…
Nanotech provides Nelson with an edge over two old opponents
Added: 6 May 2024
Sophisticated nanotechnology is being employed to protect the legacy of Britain’s most famous admir…
Human placenta map offers hope against pregnancy threats
Added: 6 May 2024
Pregnancy safe therapies for deadly diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria could be b…
Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio
Added: 6 May 2024
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together…
Cell conversion technique ‘offers boost for personalised treatments’
Added: 28 Apr 2024
Prospects for personalised treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases could have been boost…
‘Heartphone’ tracker could revolutionise disease prevention
Added: 14 Apr 2024
The popularity of the smartphone could provide significant advances in the rate of detection of hea…
Report warns of crisis as Europe’s generic medicines reduced
Added: 7 Apr 2024
A recently published study that Europe faces a crisis stemming from a substantial decline in the av…
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…