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Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report

August 19, 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide differences in awareness and use of transformational digital technology.

Synthetic polymers offer means to bypass gene editing for biocatalysis

August 19, 2022
Scientists believe they have found a way to improve the efficiency of biocatalysis by avoiding the costs and time involved in gene editing methods.

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

August 5, 2022
US biopharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has sealed an agreement to purchase the Oxford University spin-out MiroBio in a deal worth an estimated £332 million (USD$405 million).

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

August 5, 2022
Agri-food and environmental science services Fera Science Ltd has opened a £1 million specialist insect laboratory at its York Bioscience Campus.

BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure

July 28, 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure for inherited heart muscle conditions.

Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’

July 28, 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its predictions of the structure of most of the more than 200 million known proteins, described as...

Arboreal anural amphibians amaze academics

July 9, 2022
A study intended to track tree-dwelling mammal species has uncovered a surprise occupant in the branches – toads.

RSPB report criticises poor regulation of 150 pesticides

July 2, 2022
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has attacked current risk assessments for chemicals used in UK farmland, claiming these are inadequate to guard wildlife.

It pays to be pretty if you’re a threatened fish

June 9, 2022
Humans don’t only judge each other unfairly on looks, they do the same when it comes to fish species in danger of extinction.

Tooth unlocks mystery of Denisovans in Asia

June 3, 2022
Denisovans, a sister species of modern human, inhabited Laos by 164-131,000 years with important implications for populations out of Africa and Australia. Now, scientists have linked fossil teeth and a...

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