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Porvair Filtration Group's new factory will allow a consolidation of its business in the UK

Porvair expands UK operations

Porvair Filtration Group | Added: 12 Feb 2014

Porvair Filtration Group has announced the expansion of its UK facilities in New Milton near Christ…

James Dyson

Dyson lab to develop next-gen robots

Added: 11 Feb 2014

A £5m collaboration between Imperial College London and Dyson is set to develop the next generation…

Cells growing on the carbon nanotube support

"Scaffold" technique used in stem cell growth

Added: 6 Feb 2014

A team led by scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a method for growing human em…

NHS awards significant cytogenetics tender to OGT

NHS awards cytogenetics tender

Added: 5 Feb 2014

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) this week announced that it was the recipient of a cytogenetics tender…

Synthetic Structure

UK to open three synthetic biology research centres

Added: 3 Feb 2014

Three new multidisciplinary research centres in synthetic biology will be established in Bristol, N…

Accelerated enzyme reactor technology

Experts develop faster enzyme reactor technology

Added: 30 Jan 2014

Researchers from Bath University have developed an enzymatic process intensification technology des…

Imperial College London to open new data lab with partners Huawei

"Big data" lab to open in UK

Added: 27 Jan 2014

Imperial College London (ICL) and Huawei have announced the opening of a new data science innovatio…

DNA Micelles in blood

Disease detection receives stealthy upgrade

Added: 21 Jan 2014

Researchers at the University of Nottingham’s School of Pharmacy have designed and tested large mol…

The aim of WISP is to produce new and novel wheat germplasm

Wheat genotyping collaboration

Affymetrix | Added: 20 Jan 2014

Affymetrix and the University of Bristol have collaboratively designed a wheat genotyping array.


UWE Bristol develops mobile clean water system

Mobile water treatment system developed

Added: 16 Jan 2014

Researchers from UWE Bristol have developed a portable water treatment system capable of producing …

Cancer killing cells

Immunocore wins research deal with AstraZeneca

Added: 9 Jan 2014

AstraZeneca’s biologics R&D arm, MedImmune, has been selected to enter into an oncology research co…

Chemical reconstruction of tissue regions

Mass spectrometry imaging used for tissue analysis

Added: 8 Jan 2014

Scientists from Imperial College London (ICL) have developed a method that uses mass spectrometry i…

Gold Nanoparticles

Microscopy tool used to assess nano-damage

Added: 6 Jan 2014

A team of researchers from the University of Huddersfield have discovered how computer components c…

LIPPS machine installed at the University of Nottingham

Photoelectron spectroscopy suite opening today

Added: 17 Dec 2013

The University of Nottingham will today unveil the newest suite at its Nanoscience & Nanotechnology…

Robothespian

Artificial intelligence goes public

Added: 11 Dec 2013

Researchers from leading UK institutions are working on a £2m project designed to look at how remot…

Mobile phone camera microscopy tool

Researchers develop mobile phone microscopy tool

Added: 6 Dec 2013

Researchers from Finland and Sweden have stripped down a mobile phone camera and turned it into a m…

3D cancer screening assays

ddPCR used to measure cancer survival biomarker

Added: 5 Dec 2013

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle have used Droplet Digital PCR to dem…

Improved detection of the infinitely small

Scattering technique used to identify the infinitesimal

Added: 3 Dec 2013

Researchers at the Universite de Montreal have developed a Raman scattering method to improve detec…

Ultra-fast laser system

Scientists solve photosynthetic megacomplex conundrum

Added: 28 Nov 2013

In an industry first, US scientists have developed a new technique which has allowed them to study …

Nanodiamonds

Diamond "flaws" could provide quantum leap

Added: 25 Nov 2013

By exploiting flaws in minute diamond fragments, researchers at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory sa…