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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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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