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Chemical sector welcomes REACH deadline consultation results
January 8, 2023
Chemical sector businesses and organisations have overwhelmingly backed extension of transitional registration deadlines for the new post-Brexit UK REACH regime, in response to a Whitehall consultation process.
Start-up raises £0.5 million-plus towards hard tumour immunotherapy goal
November 27, 2022
Start-up Neobe Therapeutics has raised £520K towards financing its endeavours to reduce barriers to immunotherapy in cancer patients with solid tumours.
Health data project appeals for 5 million UK volunteers
November 7, 2022
Five million UK adults are being invited to participate in one of the largest and most ambitious health studies ever carried out.
Enabling miniaturisations of automated organoid drug screens
October 10, 2022
Advanced cell-based models have grown in popularity for drug testing applications. The use of nanofibrillar cellulose hydrogels has enabled organoid drug screening that is largely animal free, automation friendly and...
Simulated trials for better real-world outcomes
October 10, 2022
Improvements in technology, as well as data capture and analysis have increased the effectiveness of in silico testing. This has not only provided faster and cheaper trials but has significant...
Professional rugby players may have greater neurodegenerative disease risk, suggests research
October 8, 2022
Former international rugby players included in a recent health study showed risks of neurodegenerative diseases that averaged more than 2.5 times that for the general population.
Quantum, click and evolution provide Nobel Science-winning ingredients
October 5, 2022
Quantum physics, click chemistry and evolutionary breakthroughs were the dominant themes for this year’s winners of the world’s best known science accolades, the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry, Physics and Medicine/Physiology
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.
The OOC alternative
August 28, 2022
Microphysiological systems can be employed with the aim of providing a more accurate replication of human physiology in vitro and can prove a more effective alternative to the use of...
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...
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