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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…
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 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…
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…
£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…
Chemical engineer wins Queen's prize
Added: 4 Feb 2015
Chemical engineer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Robert Langer has today…
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…
