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BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre

November 19, 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish the UK’s first research centre dedicated to finding new treatments for vascular dementia.

Newly launched firm secures £4.3 million seed funding to target drug-resistant bacteria

November 19, 2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company developing precision antibiotic therapies, has raised £4.3 million in seed funding to develop effective targeted therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas

November 6, 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater success rate than its competitor, suggests new research from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and...

New map of UK 20th century land use throws light on biodiversity change

October 30, 2023
The first map has been produced that can detail how nearly all of Britain’s lowland meadows and pasture land was lost to increasingly intensive farming in the last century.

CGI signs three year Royal Institution Christmas Lectures deal

October 29, 2023
The Royal Institution (Ri) has launched a three-year agreement with business consultancy CGI as the title partner for its annual Christmas Lectures and in support of the organisation’s wider charitable...

First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker

October 23, 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imaging technique for early onset disease identification.

Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer

October 22, 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help fuel their growth, re-sensitising the disease for treatment, suggests new research published in Nature.

Nikon photomicrography competition unveils more small world stunners

October 22, 2023
An image of the common by-product of diabetes that causes widespread sight loss affecting up to one in five sufferers has won the coveted first place in the 49th annual...

Turing helps connect swimming sperm with zebra stripes

October 15, 2023
What is the connection between swimming sperm and the spots on a leopard or the stripes on a zebra? A common mathematical basis say two Bristol University engineers.

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