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New body aims to deliver on chemicals sector green pledge

Added: 8 Dec 2024

A new body designed to speed the transition to sustainable chemicals and materials in the UK has be…

Leukaemia research pioneers share £0.6 million fellowship funding

Added: 27 Oct 2024

Four female scientists leading innovation in cancer research have won this year’s John Goldman Fell…

Birmingham cell science initiative promises cross-application testing

Added: 27 Oct 2024

University of Birmingham Enterprise announces the launch of a new division, Biocell Energetics, to …

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…

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…

Heriot-Watt project wins £0.75 mill for alternative to painful cancer biopsies

Added: 26 Aug 2024

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are developing a new method of identifying cancerous DNA whic…

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…

‘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…

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…

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…

‘Moon lander’ molecule caught on the move

Added: 28 Apr 2024

A combination of spectroscopy and computer simulations have revealed how pyramidal molecules are ab…

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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…

Birmingham’s triage seeks way round drug discovery’s ‘valley of death’

Added: 21 Apr 2024

Birmingham university has shared details of its drug development model, designed to overcome one of…

Scottish testing centre prepares for pioneering Alzheimer’s role

Added: 21 Apr 2024

The University of St Andrews is on course to launch Scotland’s first blood tests for early stage Al…

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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…

UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment

Added: 24 Mar 2024

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treat…

Alpha Labs swabs can help achieve COVID testing targets

Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic

Added: 24 Mar 2024

A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style h…

Fox Foundation and bit.bio announce first Parkinson’s project

Added: 10 Mar 2024

The Michael J Fox Foundation and Cambridge synthetic biology company bit.bio have announced their f…

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Gates Foundation grant opens door to PhaSER project acceleration

Added: 25 Feb 2024

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted Edinburgh’s PhaSER Biomedical a US$2.3 million gran…