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Novel therapies against parasitic diseases win Nobel Prize

October 5, 2015
A novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites has won William Campbell and Satoshi _mura half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The other half has...

MenB vaccination programme launched  

September 1, 2015
A new vaccination programme has been launched today which offers children protection against meningococcal group B (MenB) infection. MenB vaccination – added to the NHS Childhood Immunisation Programme in England...

Chemical Probes Portal

August 12, 2015
New website – Chemical Probes Portal – has been launched to help researchers choose better quality research tools and avoid errors in biomedical research. The new site aims to predict...

‘Megafund’ to boost drug development

July 20, 2015
The Mayor of London – Boris Johnson – is planning to create a £10 billion ‘megafund’ to make the search for new drugs easier in London and across the country....

‘Drug Discovery Booster’ for neglected diseases

July 16, 2015
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and four pharmaceutical companies have announced a consortium to accelerate drug discovery for two of the world's most neglected diseases. The consortium –...

‘Call for Targets’ of respiratory diseases

March 2, 2015
MRC Technology has announced a ‘call for targets’ to find new therapeutics for the treatment of respiratory diseases. The MRC is looking for academic researchers worldwide to accelerate the treatment...

Smart drugs impair the healthy

November 19, 2014
Smart drugs won’t make smart people smarter suggests new research from the University of Nottingham; instead it could impair their performance. A new study conducted by Dr Ahmed Dahir Mohamed...

Longitude Prize open for entries

November 18, 2014
The Longitude Prize to tackle resistance to antibiotics has opened today, 18 November. Entries for the £10m Prize should develop a transformative point-of-care test to identify when antibiotics are needed...

Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle

October 3, 2014
Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT have engineered the bacteria to do just that. By disarming Bacillus anthracis and loading it...

Autism therapy could eliminate symptoms

September 16, 2014
A new therapy aimed at treating infants as young as 6-months-old who exhibit signs of autism has shown promising results.  The treatment – pioneered by the University of California Davis...

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