Can compliance in pharmaceutical logistics by air be reached through industry collaboration?
Pharmaceuticals makeup 1.9% of all air cargo and generate revenues of $1.4 billion per year - 2.6% of total air cargo. In the next three years (2018-2020), growth in pharmaceuticals being transported by air is...
UK Institute to harness disruptive technology to transform drug discovery
Business Secretary Greg Clark has announced funding for a series of ambitious technology projects that will transform the way medicines are discovered, enabling the pharmaceutical industry to develop groundbreaking drugs faster, cheaper and better...
Dundee’s global life sciences contribution highlighted at BIO 2018
The University of Dundee’s contribution to the UK’s strength in the global life sciences sector is has been highlighted by its Drug Discovery Unit at one of the world’s major scientific gatherings, the 2018...
The rise of biotechnology: How biotechnology is contributing to regional development
SMITH, D.J., ROSSITER, W. and MCDONALD-JUNOR, D., Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
How a city creates new development paths when faced with declining industries, is one of the most pressing questions of our time. We’ll...
New treatment option for ‘wake-up’ stroke patients
Detail revealed in MRI brain scans can help doctors accurately deduce when a stroke begins, according to new research, allowing treatment for many patients who currently cannot receive it.
The findings could help to better...
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Researchers Create First Artificial Human Prion
Finding May Shed Added Light On, Offer Treatment Hope for Brain-Wasting Diseases
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers have synthesized the first artificial human prion, a dramatic development in efforts to combat a...
The body in miniature
By Craig Brierley at University of Cambridge
The past few years has seen an explosion in the number of studies using organoids – so-called ‘mini organs’. While they can help scientists understand human biology and...
Discovering a new future through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
A number of industry sectors including aviation, retail and financial services have long applied data and utilised analytics to augment human capabilities, optimise their customer engagement and maximise returns.
Indeed the term Artificial Intelligence (AI),...
EU-wide IP Expertise is essential to the life science industry post-Brexit
The UK is world-renowned for its progressive life science and healthcare sectors, which are at the forefront of technical innovation, research excellence, and pioneering treatments.
Life science companies, research and development facilities, scientists and academics...
The importance of Intellectual Property strategy; creating a foundation on which to build value...
Dr Emma Longland and Craig Thomson
of HGF writing for the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
Most companies in the Biotech space appreciate the need for patent protection; after all, no company wants to bring...
Heart Disease: A primary cause of death
Dr Catrin Rutland BSc PGCHE MSc MMedSci PhD SFHEA FAS
Heart disease is one of the primary causes of death throughout the world in both humans and animals. Research at The School of Veterinary Medicine...
Research reveals how Tau aggregates can contribute to cell death in Alzheimer’s disease
New evidence suggests a mechanism by which progressive accumulation of Tau protein in brain cells may lead to Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists studied more than 600 human brains and fruit fly models of Alzheimer’s disease...
Genes linked to Alzheimer’s contribute to damage in different ways
Understanding how specific genes trigger injury could lead to treatments.
Multiple genes have been linked to Alzheimer’s disease, but not all genes linked to the disease contribute to damage in the same way. Researchers at...
Focus on Alzheimer’s disease – Hope on the horizon
Dr David Reynolds
Chief Scientific Officer at Alzheimer’s Research UK
Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity and is dedicated to funding pioneering research to find ways to understand, diagnose, reduce risk and...
Patients who have had an irregular heart beat can’t ever be considered ‘cured’, say...
Patients with an abnormal heart rhythm that can leave them at a higher risk of suffering from stroke still need treatment even after their heart rhythm seems to have returned to normal, say researchers...
New link between gut microbiome and artery hardening discovered
The gut microbiome is under increasing scrutiny in medical research as it is known to affect many different aspects of our health, including our metabolism and auto-immune system. A lack of diversity or range...