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AI-enhanced chromatography aims to boost analysis accuracy and speed

Added: 30 Sep 2022

Fujitsu has signed a deal with the French firm Phytocontrol to integrate artificial intellegence to…

Smart hearing system reads lips of masked speakers

Added: 26 Sep 2022

A hearing aid system under development employs radio frequency sensing paired with artificial intel…

Jacobs to support refurbishment of UK nuclear research laboratories

Added: 26 Sep 2022

US technical consultancy leaders Jacobs has won a £10 million contract to support National Nuclear …

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Single amino acid change could hold key to Neanderthal demise

Added: 19 Sep 2022

New research addresses the puzzle of why, of all the human species to have evolved, only our own av…

Kidney charity unveils competition for dialysis innovation

Added: 11 Sep 2022

Just weeks after a pioneering dialysis technology won a prestigious engineering award, a leading UK…

Bibby scientific give school children an experimental experience at british science week

CCDC grants aim to inspire tomorrow’s structural chemistry pioneers

Added: 11 Sep 2022

One of the world’s leading resources for structural chemistry, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Cent…

Sponsored Feature: The EvoluTION of ISG Fume Extraction Ltd – TION Global Ltd announces rebranding

Added: 7 Sep 2022

ISG Fume Extraction Ltd, one of the world’s premier providers of fume extraction services, recently…

Research

Revised UKRI award increases PhD minimum by £2k

Added: 5 Sep 2022

PhD students will benefit from a 10% increase in the previously announced UK Research and Innovatio…

Lab Awards: Get your nominations in before the deadline

Added: 29 Aug 2022

Time is running out to enter the Lab Awards 2022 – featuring 10 categories to highlight the best wo…

Polymer technology offers route round cryopreservation bottlenecks

Added: 27 Aug 2022

A Warwick-based laboratory team report they have mastered a technique to solve one of the abiding f…

Liquid platinum catalyst offers sustainable solution for industry

Added: 27 Aug 2022

Australian scientists say they have found a way to employ platinum as a potentially scalable indust…

Precision initiative offers £0.3 million for person-centred medicine

Added: 27 Aug 2022

Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (PMS-IC) has launched a fund offering up to £0.3 mill…

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Synthetic polymers offer means to bypass gene editing for biocatalysis

Added: 20 Aug 2022

Scientists believe they have found a way to improve the efficiency of biocatalysis by avoiding the …

Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report

Added: 20 Aug 2022

A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …

Sustainability may impact water security more than economics alone

Added: 20 Aug 2022

Equality of access among households to water supplies that are clean and plentiful may owe as much …

UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films

Added: 13 Aug 2022

The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a ma…

Warning that 1 in 3 adults will lack higher Covid antibody levels by next vaccination round

Added: 13 Aug 2022

A continued fall in the number of UK adults with higher level Covid antibody levels makes it likely…

MDC and ZEISS join forces to catapult complex medicine development

Added: 13 Aug 2022

Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) the not-for-profit organisation established by Innovate UK, has …

Fera Science launches £1million laboratory for insect bioconversion in York

Added: 5 Aug 2022

Agri-food and environmental science services Fera Science Ltd has opened a £1 million specialist in…

Oxford spin-out MiroBio bought by biopharma leader for £0.3 billion

Added: 5 Aug 2022

US biopharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has sealed an agreement to purchase the Oxford Universit…