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Ebola

GSK Ebola vaccine "well tolerated"

Added: 18 Feb 2015

Initial results from a trial using the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)/ National Institutes of Health (NIH) E…

Vince Cable

Winners of £20m biotech competition revealed

Added: 17 Feb 2015

Business secretary Vince Cable today announced the 23 winners of the £20 million Industrial Biotech…

The most detailed analysis of the human genome has been published by scientists

Gene defect may explain cardiac death

Added: 17 Feb 2015

Researchers at the University of Oxford have made a chance discovery which could explain how a gene…

United Utilities training centre

Water lab combats skills shortage

Added: 12 Feb 2015

Water firm United Utilities has invested £1.5 million in a new technical training centre located at…

Dyes

Food dyes to improve product quality

Added: 11 Feb 2015

A team of researchers at Rutgers University, US is investigating whether common food dyes could act…

Chemical fingerprinting is being used to combat food fraud

Joint venture deal for UK food agency

Added: 11 Feb 2015

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has entered into a joint venture with …

Intertek scientist

Build on UK research strength, academies urge

Added: 10 Feb 2015

The National Academies, comprising The Royal Academy of Engineering, The Royal Society, the British…

23andMe saliva collection kit

Future for genetic screening in employment

Added: 6 Feb 2015

A quarter of UK businesses would extend health screening into genetic testing to retain and attract…

AstraZeneca concept lab

AstraZeneca facility "a blow for modern science"

Added: 5 Feb 2015

Pharmaceuticals firm AstraZeneca has been given consent to build a new UK-based global R&D centre a…

The €25 blood test for bowel cancer could save thousands of lives

Budget blood test for bowel cancer

Added: 5 Feb 2015

Irish scientists are developing a EUR€25 (£18) blood test for bowel cancer, which could save thousa…

The €25 blood test for bowel cancer could save thousands of lives

£18 blood test for bowel cancer

Randox Laboratories | Added: 5 Feb 2015

Irish scientists are developing a EUR€25 (£18) blood test for bowel cancer, which could save thousa…

2015 QE Prize winner Robert Langer

Chemical engineer wins Queen's prize

Added: 4 Feb 2015

Chemical engineer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Robert Langer has today…

The 3-D bio-printing equipment can prepare all kind of scaffolds for tissue defect repair.

Engineers create artificial blood vessels

Added: 4 Feb 2015

Engineers at Shanghai University’s Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center (RMEC) have created synth…

Dame Ann Dowling

Government to support business-university collaborations

Added: 4 Feb 2015

The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) has announced a call for evidence to enable government to su…

Intertek scientist

Corrosion testing facility expanded

Added: 3 Feb 2015

Growing demand for asset life extension solutions in the oil and gas industry has led Intertek to i…

Vince Cable

UK to establish three synthetic biology centres

Added: 29 Jan 2015

The UK government has announced investment of £40 million for three synthetic biology research cent…

Nikon Metrology 225/450kV X-ray scanner

X-ray project to enhance aircraft safety

Added: 28 Jan 2015

Engineers at the University of Southampton (UOS) and University College London (UCL) are developing…

Scientists at Sanford-Burnham used iPSCs to grow new hair.

Gone today, hair tomorrow

Added: 28 Jan 2015

Researchers at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, US have used stem cells to grow huma…

Chemists perfect biofuel production capability

Materials screening 'improves' biofuel processing

Added: 27 Jan 2015

Researchers in the US have developed a computational screening process that identifies potential ma…

Chemistry major Stephan Kudlacek and professor Greg Weiss have developed a way of unboiling a hen eg

Chemists find way to 'unboil' egg

Added: 27 Jan 2015

A team of US and Australian chemists claims to have unboiled egg whites by returning a key protein …