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GSK tops 'Access to Medicine Index'
Added: 17 Nov 2014
Figures released today in the 2014 Access to Medicine Index reveal that pharmaceutical firms are do…
Graphene commercialisation deal signed
Added: 14 Nov 2014
The University of Manchester and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) yesterday signed a deal to …
Strong and flexible nanomaterial engineered
Added: 11 Nov 2014
Researchers at Drexel University in the US and Dalian University of Technology in China have chemic…
£50m for new technologies
Added: 6 Nov 2014
A £50 million fund to support new technologies in areas including synthetic biology and grapheme wa…
UK virology centre opens
Added: 3 Nov 2014
Business Secretary Vince Cable has opened the UK’s new National Virology Centre in Surrey.
Genetic make-up behind Ebola survival
Added: 31 Oct 2014
Studies in mice could enhance drug and vaccine development by reflecting the diversity of reactions…
£38m fund for biomedical research
Added: 30 Oct 2014
The Wellcome Trust has granted 25 UK universities funding to pursue areas of unmet need within biom…
Curbing HIV with social media
Added: 29 Oct 2014
’Big data’ taken from social media posts could be used reduce the spread of diseases such as HIV, a…
Automated liquid handling exhibiting growth
Added: 29 Oct 2014
The requirement for non-contact liquid handling systems is boosting the automated sector, a Frost &…
Cancer Research UK signs experimental drugs deal
Added: 28 Oct 2014
Jointly funded project will provide access to potential new treatments and help boost blood cancer …
Union calls for Ebola drug funding
Added: 27 Oct 2014
The survival rate for those who catch Ebola is roughly 30%, suggesting immunity to the disease is p…
Gold nanosensor improves drug monitoring
Added: 27 Oct 2014
A Canadian research team claims its nanoscale device can help minimise a cancer drug’s adverse side…
Drink to your memory, experts suggest
Added: 24 Oct 2014
For people over the age of 60 who do not have dementia, light alcohol consumption is associated wit…
£31m genomics centre announced
Added: 23 Oct 2014
The Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation is investing $50 million (£31m) to establish a new genomics …
£230m for research technologies
Added: 23 Oct 2014
Chancellor George Osborne has announced new government investment for technologies to help revoluti…
Autonomous 'walkers' navigate cell surfaces
Added: 23 Oct 2014
A new system that mimics the body’s ability to guide cells, enzymes and molecules to specific struc…
Fracking water reuse economised
Added: 21 Oct 2014
Scientists use established technology to purify and reuse water taken from hydraulic fracturing (fr…
AbbVie-Shire deal falls through
Added: 21 Oct 2014
AbbVie’s £32 billion takeover of drugs firm Shire has been terminated, both companies have confirme…
'Major breakthrough' could expose new drug discovery
Added: 21 Oct 2014
Scientists claim a major breakthrough in the study of a group of proteins that could usher in a “hu…
Diarrhoea drug "shows promise"
Added: 20 Oct 2014
A new drug designed to reduce the symptoms associated with chronic diarrhoea has shown promise in a…
