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Modern microscopy identifies Dutch master’s £175k handiwork

Added: 21 Dec 2023

A microscope discovered by chance in a house clearance has been authenticated as the work of ‘the f…

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…

AI responsibility remains in our hands, warns Ri Christmas Lecturer

Added: 18 Dec 2023

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for better decision making but the ‘ethical buck’ stops …

Testing giant invests millions in connected lab

Added: 18 Dec 2023

Global testing, inspection and certification services leader Element Materials Technology has commi…

Therapy ‘alters immune cells’ to fight unresponsive tumours

Added: 10 Dec 2023

Finnish researchers say they have discovered how a new cancer therapy can alter the function of imm…

Robots ‘offer effective intervention in combatting loneliness and negative emotions’

Added: 4 Dec 2023

‘Social’ robots employed during the pandemic to overcome isolation were able to help individuals st…

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…

Aston mourns pharmacy school pioneer Mike Brown

Added: 4 Dec 2023

Aston University Pharmacy School has announced the recent death of Professor Mike Brown, who was in…

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,…

BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre

Added: 19 Nov 2023

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish t…

Bioinformatician’s data protection work wins 2023 Einstein Prize

Added: 19 Nov 2023

One of the world’s largest prizes for academic research has been awarded to the Belgian bioinformat…

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 …

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…

Experts reveal five data strategies to improve mental health waiting lists

Added: 6 Nov 2023

Burgeoning mental health treatment lists must be tackled with the adoptions of five key data strate…

First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker

Added: 23 Oct 2023

Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imag…

Nikon photomicrography competition unveils more small world stunners

Added: 23 Oct 2023

An image of the common by-product of diabetes that causes widespread sight loss affecting up to one…

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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 …

Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients

Added: 16 Oct 2023

Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged …

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Turing helps connect swimming sperm with zebra stripes

Added: 16 Oct 2023

What is the connection between swimming sperm and the spots on a leopard or the stripes on a zebra?…