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The University of Dundee

Drug discovery lab to open in Dundee

Added: 30 Apr 2014

The UK government has awarded £8 million funding for a drug discovery research centre in Dundee.

Sartorius completes portfolio

Sartorius completes pharma portfolio

Sartorius Group | Added: 30 Apr 2014

Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) has acquired the majority stake in the US start-up AllPure Technolog…

Cambridge Uni facility upgrade

Lab upgrade project at Cambridge

Added: 9 Apr 2014

The University of Cambridge appoints engineering services firm in £40m facilities project.

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Food fingerprinting used to combat fraud

Added: 10 Mar 2014

The chemical fingerprinting of food samples will be key in the fight against food fraud, according …

ICL scientist Dr Cesare Terracciano

Lab-grown heart cells advance future research

Added: 28 Feb 2014

New methods for growing heart cells could significantly reduce the need to use animals in drug test…

Blood cells

Blood analysis biomarker "predicts mortality"

Added: 26 Feb 2014

The state of a person’s metabolism and short-term mortality can be illustrated with a new scientifi…

AB Sciex QTRAP 5500 system

Allergen detection method enhanced

Added: 24 Feb 2014

Analytical technologies firm AB Sciex has announced a new method for milk and egg allergen detectio…

Antibiotics

Drug resistance mechanism uncovered

Added: 20 Feb 2014

Researchers in the US have discovered a drug resistance mechanism that could have significant impli…

Porvair Filtration Group's new factory will allow a consolidation of its business in the UK

Porvair expands UK operations

Porvair Filtration Group | Added: 12 Feb 2014

Porvair Filtration Group has announced the expansion of its UK facilities in New Milton near Christ…

Cells growing on the carbon nanotube support

"Scaffold" technique used in stem cell growth

Added: 6 Feb 2014

A team led by scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a method for growing human em…

DNA Micelles in blood

Disease detection receives stealthy upgrade

Added: 21 Jan 2014

Researchers at the University of Nottingham’s School of Pharmacy have designed and tested large mol…

Chemical reconstruction of tissue regions

Mass spectrometry imaging used for tissue analysis

Added: 8 Jan 2014

Scientists from Imperial College London (ICL) have developed a method that uses mass spectrometry i…

LIPPS machine installed at the University of Nottingham

Photoelectron spectroscopy suite opening today

Added: 17 Dec 2013

The University of Nottingham will today unveil the newest suite at its Nanoscience & Nanotechnology…

Robothespian

Artificial intelligence goes public

Added: 11 Dec 2013

Researchers from leading UK institutions are working on a £2m project designed to look at how remot…

Mobile phone camera microscopy tool

Researchers develop mobile phone microscopy tool

Added: 6 Dec 2013

Researchers from Finland and Sweden have stripped down a mobile phone camera and turned it into a m…

3D cancer screening assays

ddPCR used to measure cancer survival biomarker

Added: 5 Dec 2013

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle have used Droplet Digital PCR to dem…

Improved detection of the infinitely small

Scattering technique used to identify the infinitesimal

Added: 3 Dec 2013

Researchers at the Universite de Montreal have developed a Raman scattering method to improve detec…

Ultra-fast laser system

Scientists solve photosynthetic megacomplex conundrum

Added: 28 Nov 2013

In an industry first, US scientists have developed a new technique which has allowed them to study …

Nanodiamonds

Diamond "flaws" could provide quantum leap

Added: 25 Nov 2013

By exploiting flaws in minute diamond fragments, researchers at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory sa…

Self healing battery

US scientists create "self-healing" battery

Added: 17 Nov 2013

Researchers in the US say they have developed a battery electrode with a stretchy polymer coating c…