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Vitae Three Minute Thesis victor is second Kingston Uni winner in a row

September 29, 2022
Bioengineer Sadaf Akbari beat rivals from nearly 70 universities across the UK and Ireland to win an annual ‘elevator pitch’ contest presenting her thesis in just 180 seconds.

Doppelganger effect

September 26, 2022
Ethical and medical challenges combined with technological advances and improved data capabilities have advanced the use of computational modelling in preference to animal testing. It may take longer though to...

MND treatment offers hope for further research on disease variants

September 21, 2022
Treatment administered for a specific variant of motor-neurone disease (MND) has reportedly been effective in delaying the physical decline in patients, with some recording degrees of reversal of symptoms.

Single amino acid change could hold key to Neanderthal demise

September 18, 2022
New research addresses the puzzle of why, of all the human species to have evolved, only our own avoided extinction.

View Nikon Small World in Motion 2022 winners

September 11, 2022
View the amazing microscopic images of the finalists in the 2022 Nikon Small World in Motion video competition.

Kidney charity unveils competition for dialysis innovation

September 10, 2022
Just weeks after a pioneering dialysis technology won a prestigious engineering award, a leading UK charity has launched a new competition to enable dialysis projects to get funding to help...

Sulzer acquisition to scale up biopolymer production

September 10, 2022
Industrial giant Sulzer has acquired a stake in Netherland's-based CELLiCON with the aim of scaling up the Dutch company's pioneering technology for biopolymers.

Polymer technology offers route round cryopreservation bottlenecks

August 26, 2022
A Warwick-based laboratory team report they have mastered a technique to solve one of the abiding frustrations of cell research.

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.

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