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Azenta’s Oxford genomics lab to open in March
Added: 21 Dec 2023
Azenta Life Sciences has selected Oxford as the location for its state of the art genomics lab open…

DEFRA data share essential to pandemic preparation urges expert
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Non-healthcare bodies such as DEFRA need to collaborate more fully with healthcare organisations in…

First phase of Oxford’s new 1 million sq. ft lab district begins
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Laing O’Rourke will begin the initial phase of Oxford North’s £700 million new innovation district,…

Newly launched firm secures £4.3 million seed funding to target drug-resistant bacteria
Added: 19 Nov 2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company developing precision antibiotic therapies, has raised £4.3 million in …

Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help …

Nikon video competition hails winner’s insights into neurodevelopment
Added: 1 Oct 2023
A 48-hour time-lapse video of developing neurons within a chick embryo's central nervous system is …

Work begins on Manchester’s £42 million specialist lab at Citylabs cluster
Added: 23 Sep 2023
Construction has commenced on a pioneering £42 million specialist laboratory and office workspace p…

Pistoia survey reveals AI is top tech investment for life sciences
Added: 20 Sep 2023
AI and Machine Learning will be the top tech investment for life science companies over the next tw…

Remote robotic tech ‘could transform medical assessment in high risk situations’
Added: 23 Jul 2023
Research at Sheffield University is claiming a breakthrough in robotics technology enabling remote …

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…

Yellow brick road, smart glasses and virtual assistant join semi-finalist of multimillion Longitude dementia tech competition
Added: 11 Jul 2023
An augmented reality ‘yellow brick road’, smart glasses that recognise faces and a virtual speech a…

Multimillion brain trauma investment aims to revolutionise diagnosis and treatment
Added: 3 Jul 2023
The Medical Research Council has announced investment of £9.5 million towards a research platform t…

New UK phage centre unveils weapon in battle against TB deaths
Added: 14 May 2023
This week sees the official opening of the UK Centre for Phage Research, based at the University of…

Lab Innovations reports majority of exhibition space sold for 2023
Added: 14 May 2023
Trade show Lab Innovations says it has sold more than 84% of its exhibition space for this year, de…

Bial Foundation €0.3 million prize seeks winner to follow mRNA pioneers
Added: 28 Apr 2023
Nominations have opened for one of Europe’s biggest health industry awards, Portugal’s €300,000 BIA…

‘Ramp up diagnostic techniques or risk Avian flu spill-over’
Added: 26 Mar 2023
The co-founder of healthtech company Pictura Bio says the UK’s diagnostic testing capacity is not s…

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…

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…

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…

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…