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Automated liquid handling exhibiting growth

Added: 29 Oct 2014

The requirement for non-contact liquid handling systems is boosting the automated sector, a Frost &…

Cancerous cells

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 …

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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

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…

Wine

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…

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£31m genomics centre announced

Added: 23 Oct 2014

The Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation is investing $50 million (£31m) to establish a new genomics …

Chancellor George Osborne

£230m for research technologies

Added: 23 Oct 2014

Chancellor George Osborne has announced new government investment for technologies to help revoluti…

Microwalkers

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

Fracking water reuse economised

Added: 21 Oct 2014

Scientists use established technology to purify and reuse water taken from hydraulic fracturing (fr…

Pills

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…

Pills

'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…

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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…

GSK drug discovery boost

Experimental drug Bill gets government backing

Added: 20 Oct 2014

A new law which would give dying patients access to untested medicines has received backing from th…

New technology developed to diagnose cancer cells

Test developed for ovarian cancer

Added: 16 Oct 2014

Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) have developed a test that will help doctors choose th…

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Cannabis-based epilepsy drug 'promising'

Added: 15 Oct 2014

Children with treatment-resistant epilepsy have been prescribed a cannabidiol drug in clinical tria…

Ebola virus

Canada begins Ebola vaccine trials

Added: 14 Oct 2014

An experimental Ebola vaccine developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada is set to be tested i…

Light-activated diabetes drug

Light-activated diabetes treatment possible

Added: 14 Oct 2014

Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) have created a light-activated drug that could reduce …

Drugs

Myeloma drug trials to begin

Added: 13 Oct 2014

Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) have developed a cancer drug which they plan to trial …

Beer

Beer tastes good, scientists prove

Added: 9 Oct 2014

A team of scientists in Belgium has discovered why beer and wine tastes good to both humans and fru…

Lion's Lair 2013

Only the brave enter the Lion's Lair

Added: 9 Oct 2014

Lab Innovations 2014 is once again playing host to the fiendishly competitive Lion’s Lair competiti…