Clinical trials for gene and cell therapies
In early 2020, the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGTC) reported that there were 127 ongoing trials in advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP) in the UK. This represented 12 percent of trials globally, helping...
How can you prevent weak maths skills hindering student performance?
An increasing number of students are struggling to keep up with the maths content in the crucial first months of their degree, despite the measures lecturers are taking to continually adapt their teaching to...
BioScience Today Launches Digital Packages to Support Companies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the Bio-Life science industry continues to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is has become even more vital for companies to sustain their presence during these challenging times.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic...
Zotefoams’ ZOTEK® F foam chosen by InsulFab for safe and effective delivery of COVID-19...
High-performance closed cell, crosslinked fluoropolymer foam helps ensure safe and secure transportation of ultra-cold chain vaccine
As part of the USA’s Operation Warp Speed (OWS) initiative to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas, USA-based InsulFab...
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...
Prof. James Leiper, Associate Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation, looks at the...
“There’s a lot of very exciting cardiovascular research going on at the moment which the BHF is heavily investing in – from stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine to identifying genes that could be...
HEART DISEASE RESEARCHERS SET TO WORK WITH THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING GENETIC SCISSORS
By Dr Leanne Grech, Research Engagement Officer at the British Heart Foundation
We can all agree that 2020 has been a difficult year, but a silver lining was two women winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIP LAUNCHES ONE STEP MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORMS
Cubi-Tech Extrusion Limited, a Cubic Pharmaceuticals Ltd company, puts an end to some of the problems inherent in pharmaceuticals production.
Process efficiency and continuous manufacturing are certainly hot topics in the pharmaceutical industry right now,...
WEAPONISING THE FIGHT AGAINST ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE
Could faecal transplants be an effective weapon in the fight back against antibiotic resistance? A research team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust intends to find out, once and for all.
By HELEN...
HOPE ON THE HORIZON FOR ALZHEIMER’S TREATMENT
Dr Susan Kohlhaas
Director of Research at Alzheimer’s Research UK
People with dementia have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, according to the ONS, a quarter of people who have died from COVID-19...
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...
EXPERT EQUIPS ENTREPRENEURS TO SURVIVE ADVERSITY
Expert in the field of biological sample storage and logistics management, CRYONISS is also adept at evaluating business continuity plans and identifying the holes that might well prove to be their pitfall.
Cheshire-based Cryoniss offers...
Thriving commercial ecosystems will help universities to keep making an impact beyond Covid-19
Throughout 2020, the life sciences sector has been in the limelight. In the effort to overcome COVID-19, the sector has put into action an unprecedented global application of expertise. The deployment of great minds,...
PROFESSOR HONOURED FOR HER WORK ON PANDEMIC CONTROL
A Women in Science event held earlier this year demonstrated that women are certainly coming into their own in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths.
In this, the final feature in a three-part...
Creating a Corona Vaccine
Varuni Paranavitane, IP Solicitor, AA Thornton.
As the world faces unprecedented challenges caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus, we look at the science behind vaccine technology being investigated and how intellectual property rights may play a part...
New director takes the helm
Teesside University’s £22m National Horizons Centre opened last September with two objectives, to drive research into bioprocessing and to plug the yawning skills gap.
Co-author of the UK’s National Industrial Biotechnology Strategy to 2030, Dr...