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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...

Healthcare must learn from experience to combat global challenges for patients’ sake

August 22, 2022
With nearly one in 20 of global drug trials affected by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it’s essential that the healthcare sector applies lessons learned during lockdown to provide business continuity and...

Sustainability may impact water security more than economics alone

August 19, 2022
Equality of access among households to water supplies that are clean and plentiful may owe as much or more to sustainable development practices than it does to socioeconomic factors, suggests...

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.

UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films

August 13, 2022
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a magnet for spin-out investment, with a new company that aims to revolutionise...

MDC and ZEISS join forces to catapult complex medicine development

August 12, 2022
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) the not-for-profit organisation established by Innovate UK, has joined forces with the German-based ZEISS to use advanced microscopy solutions to boost drug discovery and complex medicine...

Strathclyde tumour testing tool aims to boost experimentation 50 times

July 30, 2022
Testing on solid tumour samples could be increased 50 times, say scientists led by the University of Strathclyde who have developed a new miniaturised platform tool.

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...

BHF awards team £30 million to develop injectable heart cure

July 28, 2022
Research team CureHeart has won the £30 million Big Beat Challenge to develop its injectable cure for inherited heart muscle conditions.

Creating places for people to drive life science

July 24, 2022
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...

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