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PolyProx Therapeutics secures £3.4M for cancer treatment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 May 2019
Cambridge-based biotechnology company PolyProx Therapeutics has raised £3.4 million in seed capital…

Darwinian cancer drug project
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 May 2019
A new drug discovery programme with a “Darwinian” approach to treating cancer will be opened at the…

Medicines Discovery Catapult partners LifeArc for biomarker R&D
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2019
Medicines Discovery Catapult and LifeArc have announced partnerships to advance R&D in biomarker di…

First US based human trial of CRISPR
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2019
The University of Pennsylvania has announced it has started the first formal US human trial using t…

Mutation found in drug-resistant fungus
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2019
A newly identified genetic mutation in a drug resistant fungus may help in the fight against antimi…

Cannabis-based dementia treatment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2019
The first cannabis-based medicine to be licensed in the UK will be trialled as a treatment for peop…

Copper-rich glass for bone repair
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2019
A new treatment for osteomyelitis makes use of a copper-rich glass implant to accelerate bone repai…

New AMR strategy revamps drug payment model
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2019
The UK government has revealed its new action plan for controlling antimicrobial resistance.!--more…

Wasp venom repurposed as antibiotic drug
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Dec 2018
Variants of a peptide normally found in wasp venom could have applications as an antibiotic drug fo…

Electronic pill connects to external device
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2018
An ingestible sensor is able to release drugs and relay diagnostic information wirelessly to an ext…

DNA binding factor gives clues to the causes of MS
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2018
Researchers have identified a DNA-binding factor that might play a role in triggering multiple scle…

UK aims high for organ on a chip technology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2018
Several academic, industrial and regulatory biomedical research centres came together last month to…

Iran joins the International Agency for Research on Cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jun 2018
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has welcomed the Islamic Republic of Iran as a new …

Spin-out gurus move to new digs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2018
Oxford Sciences Innovation, which commercialises the science and technology from the University of …

Ribosome distribution key to programming cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2018
By controlling the distribution of bacterial ribosomes, synthetic biologists say they can program c…

Organ-on-chip tech offers Hep B hope
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Mar 2018
Scientists at Imperial College London have become the first in the world to test how pathogens inte…

Heroin vaccine close to human trials
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Mar 2018
Scientists from the US say they have achieved a major milestone toward designing a safe vaccine to …

Report reveals ‘urgent need’ for improved drug discovery productivity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2018
A new report by two UK bioscience organisations suggests that despite great strengths, the UK drug …

Venture capital vital to future of biotech
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jan 2018
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has released a report suggesting that pharma…

Old dog, new tricks for TB antibiotic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2018
Tuberculosis could be fought more effectively with future drugs – thanks to new research into an ol…