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First female Chief Scientific Adviser Dame Angela set to assume role in weeks
Added: 23 Feb 2023
Newly-appointed Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) Professor Dame Angela McLean will take o…
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…
Enhanced computer modelling offers improved training for trainee surgeons
Added: 12 Feb 2023
Modelling improvements have enabled a research team at Bristol University to refine the use of virt…
UK research teams share £2.5 million kidney funding boost
Added: 3 Feb 2023
Fourteen projects focused on kidney disease treatment are to share one of the most sizeable funding…
'A fifth of cancer trial sites enrol only one patient'
Added: 3 Feb 2023
Nearly one in five cancer clinical trial enrolment sites surveyed worldwide failed to enrol more th…
Science reveals why Roy Keane's like a Rottweiler
Added: 1 Feb 2023
What does Roy Keane have in common with a Rottweiler? Physiologically, quite a lot – or rather a sh…
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…
Judges announced for £4 million Longitude Prize for AI-assisted dementia technology
Added: 23 Jan 2023
Leading figures from academia, charities and medical institutions are among the judges chosen for t…
Aston claims genome breakthrough with computer modelling
Added: 22 Jan 2023
Aston University claims to have achieved the first reconstruction of a virus with its complete geno…
Breast cancer studies top global clinical trials for 2022
Added: 15 Jan 2023
Breast cancer remains the most studied disease according to recent global analysis of thousands of …
Treatments remain effective for Mpox says study
Added: 15 Jan 2023
Joint research by British and German institutions suggest that current drugs used to combat the glo…
Chemical sector welcomes REACH deadline consultation results
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Chemical sector businesses and organisations have overwhelmingly backed extension of transitional r…
Discovery Park unveils scheme to grow job opportunities 100% in a decade
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Discovery Park plans to double the number of jobs it provides to around 7,000 over the next decade.…
Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images i…
Start-up raises £0.5 million-plus towards hard tumour immunotherapy goal
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Start-up Neobe Therapeutics has raised £520K towards financing its endeavours to reduce barriers to…
Birmingham Uni institute’s Arlt to be new MRC London Institute Director
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Award-winning clinical endocrinologist Professor Wiebke Arlt will be the new Director of the Medica…
Imaging breakthrough may provide ASD diagnosis biomarker
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Scientists at Yale University say they have identified a possible biomarker for autism spectrum dis…
Kent Uni lab aims to tackle footballer cardiac threat
Added: 20 Nov 2022
The University of Kent claims it has achieved a first for UK labs by directly imaging at photomicro…
Heriot-Watt joint initiative to market medical design
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Heriot-Watt University and Technology Scotland will work together to boost access to sustainable me…
Health data project appeals for 5 million UK volunteers
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Five million UK adults are being invited to participate in one of the largest and most ambitious he…
