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

August 5, 2022
News
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).
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Fera Science launches £1million laboratory for insect bioconversion in York

August 5, 2022
News
Agri-food and environmental science services Fera Science Ltd has opened a £1 million specialist insect laboratory at its York Bioscience Campus.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Environment, Environmental, Food & Bev, Policy
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Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’

July 28, 2022
News
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...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure

July 28, 2022
News
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure for inherited heart muscle conditions.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Creating places for people to drive life science

July 24, 2022
Insight
While technology and collaboration has made it possible for many to consider giving up their commute entirely, Jane Kennedy looks at those whose only option is to work out of...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Environment, Health & Safety, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Policy
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Non-consensual citizen science?

July 24, 2022
Insight
Russ Swan ponders the non-consensual extraction of biological information from public social images in the emerging discipline of ‘imageomics’.
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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In silico study sheds light on elephants’ cancer resistance

July 16, 2022
Elephants' ability to combat cancer could help develop treatments in humans and also bolster conservationists' efforts to protect the world's largest land mammals.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Zoology
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Arboreal anural amphibians amaze academics

July 9, 2022
News
A study intended to track tree-dwelling mammal species has uncovered a surprise occupant in the branches – toads.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Botany, Environment, Environmental, Geology
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Tributes paid to neuroscientist Sir Colin Blakemore

July 2, 2022
Scientists and academics have paid tribute to the late professor Sir Colin Blakemore, following his death at the age of 78.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Policy
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RSPB report criticises poor regulation of 150 pesticides

July 2, 2022
News
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.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Policy
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