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£125m funding for UK bioscience
Added: 3 Oct 2014
Funding boost will help support the training and development of 1,250 PhD students within the UK li…
Chemists boost biofuel production
Added: 2 Oct 2014
Chemical engineers in the US have modified yeast tolerance to enhance biofuel production capacity, …
Nanoparticle attraction key to forensics
Added: 2 Oct 2014
Chemical attraction is fundamental in discovering previously undetectable fingerprint marks, new re…
Scientists develop 'cure' for blindness
Added: 1 Oct 2014
Stem cell discovery could lead to better treatments for blindness, new research suggests.
Gene test 'could prevent cancer'
Added: 1 Oct 2014
Offering younger people diagnosed with bowel cancer a new genetic test could be cost effective and …
Engineers devise rapid drug screen
Added: 30 Sep 2014
MIT engineers have devised a novel technology for rapidly testing drug-delivery vehicles in zebrafi…
Brainwave 'fingerprint' could detect psychosis
Added: 29 Sep 2014
The development of an early-warning test could drastically help those young people most at risk of …
"Global protein map" targets cancer
Added: 26 Sep 2014
Scientists in London have gained valuable new insights into how an enzyme causes irreversible chang…
Protection from stress-induced depression
Added: 25 Sep 2014
Scientists uncover why physical exercise helps protect the brain from depression brought on by stre…
Nanometal a 'challenger' to graphene
Added: 23 Sep 2014
Scientists at the University of Southampton (UOS) have developed a graphene-like material with nove…
Merck acquires Sigma-Aldrich for £10bn
Added: 22 Sep 2014
Pharma and chemicals giant Merck KGaA has agreed to buy life sciences firm Sigma-Aldrich for approx…
Ultra-thin 'diamond nanothreads' developed
Added: 22 Sep 2014
Almost a century after it was first attempted, scientists have successfully compressed separate car…
New molecule boosts stem cell therapy
Added: 18 Sep 2014
Stem cell transplants could be revolutionised through the combination of a newly discovered molecul…
Stem cell 'first aid kit' discovered
Added: 18 Sep 2014
Researchers have shown how stem cells communicate with other cells to help modify damaging immune r…
Cancer drug bears fruit
Added: 18 Sep 2014
Extract from a North American wild berry may enhance the effectiveness of pancreatic cancer medicin…
Chemists 'clear' fracking of water pollution
Added: 16 Sep 2014
Contamination of groundwater near US shale sites was caused by well failures rather the hydraulic f…
Scientists enhance '3D polymer' method
Added: 15 Sep 2014
Research group takes a step closer to producing fullerene on an industrial scale, new research sugg…
Novel theory slows cancer growth
Added: 15 Sep 2014
Prohibiting the protein ’Ral’ can actively slow the growth of tumours, new research suggests.
Scientists develop artificial 'biospleen'
Added: 14 Sep 2014
Novel blood-cleansing device inspired by the human spleen is designed to filter bacteria, fungi and…
Scientists break stem cell barrier
Added: 12 Sep 2014
Human stem cells have been reset to their earliest developmental state in the lab, according to new…
