THE NETPARK NETWORK THAT LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
The North-East Technology Park - or NETPark as it is known - in County Durham provides science, technology and engineering companies with the type of world-class laboratory, clean room and office space they require on the...
Data science beginning to drive healthcare
Teesside University’s £22m National Horizons Centre opened in September 2019 with two objectives, to drive research into bioprocessing, digital and health, and to plug the yawning skills gap. Research, teaching and enterprise are its...
Leukaemia diagnosis and treatment on brink of huge change
UK scientists hope they can learn to better predict leukaemia (blood cancer) occurrence, and develop improved drug screening pathways to treat the disease, with funding worth £12million.
Two projects – led by the University of...
Why Norwich is a UK hotspot for innovation in modern industrial biotechnology
The publication of a new study commissioned by the Government Office for Science (GOS) earlier this year highlighted the East of England as a hotspot for biotechnology adoption and commercialisation. The study titled ‘Life...
Key gene blocks the ‘spillover’ of avian flu to humans
Understanding the genetic make-up of currently circulating avian flu strains may offer one of the best lines of defence against widespread human transmission.
This is according to new research which has found a key human...
Degree apprenticeships: a first class route to building a talent pipeline
Alex Felthouse, Managing Director of Eisai Manufacturing Ltd .and Science Industry Partnership Board Member
Research1 undertaken in support of the Science Industry Partnership (SIP) 2025 Skills Strategy identified that the Medicines Manufacturing Sector, a strategic UK...
Bridging the gap between academic learning and on the job skills
The University of Salford’s Environment and Life Science degree apprenticeship programmes are a key area of development. The Biomedical Science degree apprenticeship programme has expanded rapidly over the past couple of years and the...
Supporting Drug Discovery: A Journey into the World of Inspiralis Limited
I. Introduction
As drug discovery continues to evolve, innovative tools and resources are essential for unlocking the potential of emerging compounds, and that’s where Inspiralis Limited comes in. As a leading biotech company specializing in...
New ‘gene therapy factory’ opens
A new Clinical Biotechnology Centre (CBC) has opened in Bristol to expand the UK’s ability to develop and manufacture new gene and cell therapies.
The Centre will make products for the development of potentially curative...
Plastic film can kill viruses using room lights
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a ground-breaking plastic film that can kill viruses on its surface with room light.
The self-sterilising film is the first of its kind; it is low-cost to produce,...
Next Chapter of Intarcia’s Mini Pump for Diabetes Begins
More than 2 years after the FDA derailed the trajectory of its novel treatment system for type 2 diabetes (T2D), Intarcia Therapeutics announced that regulators have accepted a resubmitted new drug application for the...
Molecular ‘cookie cutter’ technique could provide key for COVID drug discovery
University of Birmingham researchers are working to isolate and extract the COVID-19 encounter complex in a form that is stable enough for identification of target sites for future anti-viral drugs.
The encounter complex is formed...
Overcoming the challenges of working with genetically edited cells
Sonia Jassi, Drug Discovery and Synthetic Biology Lead at Automata, examines how gene editing production could be scaled up for the benefit of UK labs.
The UK government is in discussion around a new bill...
Genome editing offers hope for leukaemia sufferers
The science of gene editing continues to advance with the announcement by researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute of a new approach to tackling myeloid leukaemia (AML).
The Cambridgeshire-based Trust and its collaborators have...
Organ functions of the human yolk sac revealed
The role of the human yolk sac in supporting early embryonic development and the first wave of the prenatal immune system has been mapped in a study published in Science.
Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger...
Lab-grown ‘mini-stomachs’ could shed light on children’s COVID symptoms
A ‘lab-grown model’ of the human stomach, that can be used to study how infections affect the gastrointestinal system, has been developed for the first time.
A UCL-led team of international scientists have built on...