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Engineers create artificial blood vessels
Added: 4 Feb 2015
Engineers at Shanghai University’s Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center (RMEC) have created synth…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Gone today, hair tomorrow
Added: 28 Jan 2015
Researchers at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, US have used stem cells to grow huma…

Materials screening 'improves' biofuel processing
Added: 27 Jan 2015
Researchers in the US have developed a computational screening process that identifies potential ma…

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 …

Cancer cooperation "makes treatment difficult"
Added: 26 Jan 2015
A team of researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has made steps in understanding why ma…

GSK Ebola vaccine shipped to Liberia
Added: 23 Jan 2015
Pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has shipped 300 vials of its candidate Ebola vaccine to L…

'Systems genetics' could revolutionise epilepsy treatment
Added: 23 Jan 2015
Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) have pioneered novel computational and genetics techni…

Physicists use laser to create 'supermaterials'
Added: 20 Jan 2015
A team of physicists from New York’s University of Rochester has used laser-patterning technology t…

Scientific data fuels nuclear safety
Added: 20 Jan 2015
Engineers at the University of Huddersfield are using electron microscopy to ensure the safety of t…

Petroleum testing lab reopens after flood
Added: 19 Jan 2015
Product testing firm Intertek has reopened its Immingham Docks Laboratory after a tidal surge and w…

Cambridge set for bioscience boost
Added: 19 Jan 2015
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has invested £44 million in deve…

Randox unveils £161m Science Park
Added: 15 Jan 2015
Medical diagnostics firm Randox intends to build a £161 million manufacturing and R&D facility in C…

Gene study targets heart failure
Added: 14 Jan 2015
A study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) has revealed the gene mutations r…

UK-China stem cell projects announced
Added: 13 Jan 2015
The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have…

Scotland secures £15m genome investment
Added: 12 Jan 2015
Experts from the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow will partner with genome sequencing firm Ill…

Experts pioneer universal snake-bite antivenom
Added: 12 Jan 2015
A team of researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has been awarded funding …