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Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research
Added: 8 Sep 2024
The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has b…
Young innovator turns to 3D to scale up stroke recovery tool
Added: 8 Sep 2024
Innovate UK’s 2023 Young Innovators award winner is using 3D printing to put his stroke recovery th…
Cell mapping project gives hope for new insights into endometriosis
Added: 1 Sep 2024
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Oxford University’s Nuffield department of women’s …
AI to help GPs identify those at high risk of heart-related death
Added: 1 Sep 2024
An AI tool that pinpoints hidden heart risk in patients could be rolled out for GPs to use within t…
AFRC achieves another testing gold
Added: 1 Sep 2024
The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) has attained yet another me…
Heriot-Watt project wins £0.75 mill for alternative to painful cancer biopsies
Added: 26 Aug 2024
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are developing a new method of identifying cancerous DNA whic…
Dr Chris van Tulleken to deliver 2024 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Added: 25 Aug 2024
Science broadcaster Dr Chris van Tulleken will deliver this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lect…
Machine learning provides workout for new polymers
Added: 25 Aug 2024
Materials scientists in Japan have adapted machine learning to predict the mechanical properties of…
‘Swifties’ nail 100,000 milestone
Added: 17 Aug 2024
A conservation app dedicated to mobilising citizen scientists to help protect Swift populations has…
Speedy separation offers tool for microplastics and cancer cell studies
Added: 17 Aug 2024
Researchers in Sweden have pinpointed a method to speed the separation of particles in fluids, prov…
Lab Innovations opens for registration and bumper 2024
Added: 17 Aug 2024
Visitor registration has opened for Lab Innovations 2024, which takes place at Birmingham NEC from …
Sample preparation of environmental samples for trace metal analysis
Added: 13 Aug 2024
A technical note is available from Analytix that highlights using a Milestone Ethos UP microwave di…
Environmental sample extraction – improve quality and throughput
Added: 13 Aug 2024
Prior to analysis, the extraction of environmental samples such as soils requires solvent extractio…
Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine
Added: 11 Aug 2024
The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-me…
Mystery of Kaspar Hauser solved, leaving another enigma
Added: 11 Aug 2024
The scientist responsible for confirming the identity of Richard III’s corpse has disproved a two c…
PacBio-Singapore project to create largest SE Asian genome dataset
Added: 11 Aug 2024
Singapore’s National Precision Medicine (NPM) Programme and genomic sequencing leader PacBio have e…
Scientists hijack brain parasite for new therapy delivery vehicle
Added: 3 Aug 2024
Harmful brain parasites could be effectively hijacked as vehicles for therapeutic treatment for neu…
Real time tracking could slash millions from bill for lost NHS lab samples
Added: 2 Aug 2024
Supermarket style product tracking piloted at a Leeds hospital could be used to cut the NHS’s mammo…
Waste firm claims a first using Raman lab tech
Added: 1 Aug 2024
Waste management specialist CSG is employing lab technology in the field for a new service to ident…
Smart spoon ‘restores’ dementia sufferers’ taste buds
Added: 29 Jul 2024
Loss of taste is one of the many symptoms of dementia and one that not only impacts sufferers’ qual…
