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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 …

Cancer cells in vitro

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…

Ebola virus

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…

MRC Clinical Sciences Centre

'Systems genetics' could revolutionise epilepsy treatment

Added: 23 Jan 2015

Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) have pioneered novel computational and genetics techni…

A femtosecond laser created detailed hierarchical structures in the metals, as shown in this SEM ima

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…

MIAMI facility

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…

Intertek Re-Opens Immingham Docks Laboratory, One Year after Tidal Surge Destroyed Previous Humbersi

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…

Construction of the Bennet Building

Cambridge set for bioscience boost

Added: 19 Jan 2015

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has invested £44 million in deve…

Artist’s impression of Randox Science Park

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…

Imperial College London

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…

Neural stem cells

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…

HiSeq X Ten from Illumina

Scotland secures £15m genome investment

Added: 12 Jan 2015

Experts from the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow will partner with genome sequencing firm Ill…

A venomous pit viper

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 …