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Nottingham uni spin-out secures UKRI £1 million for gene therapy tech
Added: 6 Sep 2023
University of Nottingham spin-outTherageniX and collaborator the University of Nottingham, have bee…

100 Technicians share Hauksbee Award honours
Added: 4 Sep 2023
One hundred technicians working in a range of sectors and campaigning to raise their profession’s p…

Joint study says earlier mental health care could save £600 million and improve 7 million lives
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Shortening treatment and waiting times for mental health conditions from 12 months to three months …

Low birthweight may directly increase later heart risk – study
Added: 28 Aug 2023
Low birthweight should be added to the list of risks for heart disease, urges a research paper pres…

Can science tackle ACL threat to women players’ World Cup success?
Added: 20 Aug 2023
The knee injury England midfielder Keira Walsh narrowly avoided at the World Cup has been identifie…

Tax crackdown heralds new R&D relief headaches
Added: 13 Aug 2023
Science research and development tax relief applications will now face an extra hurdle thanks to ne…

Universities share UKRI ‘s £13 mill AI for health fund
Added: 13 Aug 2023
Secretary of State for Science and Technology Michelle Donelan announced £13 million-worth of fundi…

IET football tournament’s out of this world
Added: 3 Aug 2023
Moon Rovers 2: Lunar United 3. While it sounds like Fantasy Football, it could be one day as feasib…

Depression now in Top Five most studied diseases in clinical development
Added: 23 Jul 2023
Phesi’s mid-year global analysis of all clinical trials conducted to date in 2023 confirms a shift …

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…

Lab Innovations 2023 opens for visitor registration
Added: 10 Jul 2023
Lab Innovations has officially opened visitor registration for its upcoming event on November 1 and…

Pines and paper alleviate science's sustainable pain killer headache
Added: 9 Jul 2023
Bath University's Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability has revealed a sustainab…

Wong appointed to Aston’s unique Regius pharmacy professorship
Added: 3 Jul 2023
The pharmacoepidemiologist Professor Ian Wong has been appointed as the new Regius Professor of Pha…

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…

Breakthrough recognition for science publishing’s invisible co-reviewers
Added: 25 Jun 2023
One of the science world’s leading publishers is taking a stand on behalf of hundreds of young rese…

Study reveals flu pandemics’ 20 year long tail
Added: 18 Jun 2023
New analysis of historic data from the previous two centuries suggests that influenza pandemics cre…

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…

Mass spectrometry offers means to assess protein ‘glues’
Added: 18 Jun 2023
Mass spectrometry can provide medical research with the means to harness protein interactions for r…

Sponge enables robot to crack the egg challenge
Added: 11 Jun 2023
Robots have demonstrated their efficiency over the human and manual approach in many areas but stil…