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Government aid for healthcare innovation trio welcomed

Added: 22 Jan 2023

InnoScot Health, the private body working with NHS Scotland to drive commercial innovation in the s…

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…

UK’s second largest biobank eyes 1 million samples in first year 

Added: 15 Jan 2023

BioGrad is set to open the country's second largest biobank facility within a £7.6 million investme…

Harvard team uses rubber to mimic complex birdsongs

Call for targeted approach to boost bird-friendly farming

Added: 8 Jan 2023

Threatened farmland bird species would benefit from a more strategic investment of resources rather…

Chemical sector welcomes REACH deadline consultation results

Added: 8 Jan 2023

Chemical sector businesses and organisations have overwhelmingly backed extension of transitional r…

LifeArc pairs with Euro partner to improve respiratory disease outcomes

Added: 17 Dec 2022

Life science charity LifeArc has embarked on a three year partnership with the European Multicentre…

UK poised to be world-leading lab-grown meat producer, claims patent firm

Added: 17 Dec 2022

The United Kingdom is on course to play a major international role in the development of lab-grown …

Liverpool industry and academia join forces with new solution to fight hospital infections

Added: 17 Dec 2022

Antimicrobial coatings will be installed on a trial basis for touchscreens and door handles in the …

Top US lab hails its nuclear fusion breakthrough

Added: 14 Dec 2022

US scientists have hailed a landmark achievement in nuclear fusion that could one day transform ene…

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…

Multi-million award to scale up uni lab’s cyber-crime solution research

Added: 4 Dec 2022

Heriot-Watt University academic Mehul Malik has been awarded £2.5 million from the Royal Academy of…

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…

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…

Millions of pounds of expired Covid PPE faces disposal, claims firm

Added: 22 Nov 2022

A surplus of personal protective equipment to deal with an expected third winter spike in Covid-19 …

Data explosion threatens Catch 22 for pathogen research

Added: 20 Nov 2022

Science’s efforts to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being hampered by th…

Swiss-UK deal eases EU Horizon disappointments

Added: 14 Nov 2022

Britain and Switzerland have sealed an agreement for collaboration on research and innovation proje…

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…

Tech challenges hinder mountain water data gathering

Added: 7 Nov 2022

Global failure to make better use of the latest monitoring technologies for high altitude water dat…

Jha and Rannard headline at Lab Innovations

Added: 31 Oct 2022

Economist science correspondent Alok Jha and leading academic and spin-out pioneer Dr Steve Rannard…