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Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness

February 22, 2025
UCL retinal specialists received special permission to use a novel therapy to restore some sight to children suffering from a rare form of genetic blindness.

Time to launch bureaucracy 4.0

February 17, 2025
Laboratories have embraced the digital age. Isn’t it time medical logistics did the same to save resources and lives, asks Jo Eames.

Novel interrogation

February 17, 2025
Innovative research is essential to the development of new treatments, says Philipp Koellinger, who explains how his company’s novelty scores feature comparing 250 million articles could impact the pharmaceutical sector.

Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse

February 14, 2025
They might be the stuff of horror movies but Egyptian mummies seem to have lasted the course where good hygiene is concerned.

Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub

February 13, 2025
Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than £13 million to fund its MEMetic project for water filtration.

Tell it to the spin doctor

February 10, 2025
Despite being an internationally renowned centre of academic excellence, the UK is struggling to commercialise the innovations its research creates. Andrew Tingey discusses why the UK’s spinout sector is faltering,...

Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope

February 9, 2025
Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million grant for Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME), saying it will help accelerate her collaborative work...

Crafoord Prize laureates honoured for autoimmune disease work

February 8, 2025
Darwin and Wallace, Newton and Leibniz, or Priestley, Scheele and Lavoisier – history provides numerous examples of scientists independently making breakthrough discoveries in the same area of research.

Alga ‘superfood’ comes with scaling up challenges, say scientists

February 7, 2025
A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultural ‘superfood’, claim researchers from the University of Birmingham.

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