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Composite product offers hope for neurodegenerative conditions, claim developers
Added: 13 Jan 2025
A novel composite material created by two UK universities has the potential to provide new treatmen…
Imperial’s smart heart reading T-shirt nets £340k
Added: 6 Jan 2025
Imperial College London researchers have secured more than a third of a million pounds to enable th…
Bacteria point the way for sustainable space power
Added: 18 Nov 2024
An international research project involving scientists from Heriot-Watt University has found inspir…
RSB and Pirbright launch new biorisk professional registration scheme
Added: 13 Jul 2024
The Royal Society of Biology and the Pirbright Institute have launched a new professional registrat…
New chemosensor offers chance for battery free remote lactic testing
Added: 24 Jun 2024
Lactic acid testing for healthcare and in professional sports could be rendered cheaper and more ef…
Fewer than one in three experts prepared for AI challenge, suggests Pistoia
Added: 13 May 2024
Less than one third of life science experts polled in a Pistoia Alliance survey say they are coping…
Aston and allies open doctoral centre for next generation greenhouse gas leaders
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Aston University is to host a doctoral training centre to train a new generation of scientists to h…
‘Potash price rise undermines global food security’ warning
Added: 25 Feb 2024
Rising prices for potash across the globe are creating a threat to the level of global food securit…
AMSBIO to make double offer award for 2024
Added: 28 Jan 2024
AMSBIO has doubled its travel grant award scheme to offer two bursaries to young scientists attendi…
Flower power inspires drug cell breakthrough
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Bath university scientists have borrowed from nature to develop more stable versions of proteins an…
AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater s…
Relief from scientific community greets Horizon Europe deal
Added: 8 Sep 2023
UK readmission to Horizon Europe and the Copernicus programme has been greeted with widespread reli…
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…
Research provides a material boost for epilepsy treatment
Added: 18 Jun 2023
New materials for probes used in brain surgery could have the potential to provide a transformation…
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…
Royal Assent opens door to gene edited food in UK
Added: 29 Mar 2023
The granting of Royal Assent for the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act has finally opened…
Kind to animals, kind to plants… lab’s ethical fragrance
Added: 5 Mar 2023
Scientists funded by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) have turned parfumiers…
Replicating viruses work together to thwart opponents
Added: 19 Feb 2023
New research into the cooperative and competitive behaviour of viruses in the human body could help…
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…
