Hope as research unlocks the secrets of heart disease
By Frances Griss
Since the beginning of the 1960s, deaths from heart disease in the UK have halved so that today only 26% of people have a cause of death attributable to the condition, compared with...
Cell therapy manufacturing –making the future now
There is no mistaking the sure but steady revolution happening in cell therapy. With the long-held promise now rewarded with greater funding, investment and belief, the change in gear has been dizzying.
However, this is...
UK firm plans state-of-the-art precision medicine centre in California
Working with local partners, BIOS Health, of Cambridge, will create a cutting-edge research and clinical trials center for neural digital therapies. The centre will be built around BIOS’s real-time insights into the nervous system,...
Everyday tablet could lead to relief for cancer sufferers
Another example of immunology at work is new research that suggests that giving cancer patients aspirin at the same time as immunotherapy could dramatically boost the effectiveness of the treatment.
Francis Crick Institute researchers, funded...
UK Supreme Court inflicts more patent pain on Warner-Lambert
Eilidh Pugh, Pharmaceutical Patent Attorney, AdamsonJones.
The UK Supreme Court has handed down its much-anticipated decision in WarnerLambert Company LLC v Generics (UK) Ltd t/a Mylan and Actavis. The case is important because it is the...
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 science behind the breakthrough
The new technique, called “early pronuclear transfer”, involves transplanting the nuclear DNA from a fertilised egg into a donated egg, which contains healthy mitochondria, on the day of fertilisation.
Extensive studies conducted in a collaboration...
Improving the way information is shared
Effective sharing of information is at the heart of work to develop the world’s largest database for cancer drug discovery, which has been revolutionised by adding 3D structures of faulty proteins and maps of...
Team edges closer to breakthrough
Finding a way to defeat drug-resistance is driving many research projects, including at the University of East Anglia where scientists say they are getting closer to solving the problem of antibiotic resistance.
New research has...
A simple idea that could change medical research
It is often said that the best inventions are the simplest. That is certainly the case with CryoXtract Instruments, whose CXT350 and CXT750 frozen aliquotting systems have the potential to revolutionise the world of...
Taking a global view
Work being done by Romanian and Ukranian scientists in the Danube Delta is helping to drive a research programme that could have global ramifications.
Findings by the Danube Delta Research Institute show that algae bloom...
Research deepens understanding of genes
Central to effective gene therapies is understanding the way genes work and a new yeast study has suggested that a third of them are involved in metabolism.
Metabolism is the biochemical processes that occur inside...
No time to breathe easy as the battle against asthma intensifies
Asthma is one of those conditions that can strike the very young and stay with them as they head into old age, often developing over many years into the more serious illness Chronic Obstructive...
There’s more to collagen than cosmetics…
Big strides are being made in collagen clinical development, particularly in treatment of age-related conditions. Dr Gen Li, president and founder of Phesi, discusses the increase in collagen research, and its clinical and biological...
Preparations for AI patenting in Europe
The current era of rapid technological development requires industry to be quick to respond to challenges and opportunities, with many choosing to exploit new AI technologies rather than wait to be disrupted by competitors.
Intellectual...
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...