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Aston AIME celebrates launch with collaborative science
Added: 22 Sep 2024
The new Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence has hosted its official academic launch at Aston Un…

Replacing ultra-processed foods in diet associated with reduction in type 2 diabetes risk
Added: 15 Sep 2024
A new study of the links between processed foods and diabetes risk suggests considerable variation,…

Alzheimer’s Society pledges £9 million for three dementia training centres
Added: 15 Sep 2024
The Alzheimer’s Society is investing in a multimillion pound project to tackle the talent drain of …

Young innovator turns to 3D to scale up stroke recovery tool
Added: 8 Sep 2024
Innovate UK’s 2023 Young Innovators award winner is using 3D printing to put his stroke recovery th…

Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research
Added: 8 Sep 2024
The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has b…

Cell mapping project gives hope for new insights into endometriosis
Added: 1 Sep 2024
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Oxford University’s Nuffield department of women’s …

AI to help GPs identify those at high risk of heart-related death
Added: 1 Sep 2024
An AI tool that pinpoints hidden heart risk in patients could be rolled out for GPs to use within t…

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…