Tackling infection a major priority worldwide
Preventing infection is a major challenge facing healthcare workers today. To meet that challenge, an industry has developed specialising in training people at all levels, from carers in homes for the elderly to senior...
Australian biobanking initiative to help autism research
All over the world, the potential of biobanking is being recognised. In Australia, for example, the first Autism Biobank has just been launched by the Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism (Autism CRC).
The...
Storage crucial to American cancer initiative
The management of information is also at the heart of The Genomic Data Commons (GDC) initiative in the United States, a system backed by the US Government to promote sharing of genomic and clinical...
Fast-growing biobanking industry offers promise of medical breakthroughs
For a long time, one of the biggest challenges facing medical science was ‘how do you manage the vast amount of patient data collected in hospitals, surgeries and research institutions’?
It felt like the answers...
Funding awarded for research projects
Funding awarded for research projects
Other work is under way after the BBSRC, along with the Natural Environment Research Council, and 12 industry partners agreed to fund six research projects to improve the sustainability of...
Producing crops that can resist the ravages of climate change
Amid all the talk about the impact of climate change, one of the areas sometimes overlooked is the potentially severe effect on the production of food.
However, increasing awareness of the threat posed by flood,...
Setting up a Bio Science Business – putting together the Team
This is the second short article in our series on setting up a new business in the bio science space
Beyond the confines of a very small consultancy it is difficult to run a business...
FortisNet: strength through collaboration
An interdisciplinary hub of expertise in regenerative medicine, orthopaedics, prosthetics and assistive technologies.
The musculoskeletal challenges described above form part of a wider landscape, where diabetic amputations have increased to 7,000 per year in the...
Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration
"Translating pioneering developmental and stem cell science for patient benefit"
Medical advances have led to a welcome increase in life expectancy, indeed, it is estimated that by 2020, 20% of the UK population will be...
Stem cells
Imagine that I have a daughter who at an early age develops type 1 diabetes. The beta cells of the islets of Langerhans are being destroyed by her own immune system. She will be...
Investment supports American projects
Stem cell agency, The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded $19.9 million to ImmunoCellular Therapeutics to carry out a Phase 3 clinical trial in people with newly diagnosed glioblastoma using a kind...
Scottish research project secures funding
Exciting work is under way in Scotland where Keisuke Kaji, researcher at the University of Edinburgh’s MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM), has been awarded a £4m Fellowship Award by the Medical Research Council.
The...
New treatments now possible
Another breakthrough, in the transformation of human cells by an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol, could open the door to a new range of treatments for a variety of...
Hope for the future
Few areas of medical research are exciting as much interest as the potential offered by stem cell research and regenerative medicine.
Every day sees scientists making breakthroughs in a range of health conditions, each one...
Biosimilars: should they have a ‘similar’ system to the originator?
The safety of any medicine such as biosimilar is as dependent as much on the system that supports it as the biological properties of the medicine itself. Part of this system rests as proprietary...
High purity and excellent chemical resistance for syringes
In the past decade, Cyclo Olefin Polymer (COP) and Cyclo Olefin Copolymer (COC) based syringes, cartridges, and vials have attracted ever increasing attention from the pharma industry as a valid transparent plastic alternative to...