The Great British Biosimilar Journey
Attitudes towards biosimilar drugs have rapidly changed in the last 24 months, but there is still work to do. Divya Chadha Manek from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) – the research arm...
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...
Not gone, not forgotten..
The penny finally drops as politicians pledge support for dementia research
Ironically, given that it is one of the planet’s biggest illnesses, dementia also appeared to creep up on world leaders more focused on other...
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...
Delivering real impact to the world of bioscience
Since it opened in 2019, the National Horizons Centre has quickly established itself as a vital linchpin helping drive forward the life sciences sector across the UK.
Through research, partnerships and training , the National...
Having access to finance is an essential ingredient to grow and prosper
Graeme Fisher: Managing Director for Communications and Policy at British Business Bank
Smaller businesses are a fundamental part of the UK economy, driving growth and employment creation. Those businesses categorised as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...
Hyperactive FOXA1 reprograms endocrine-resistant breast cancer to become metastatic
A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School has unveiled a novel mechanism that helps explain how endocrine-resistant breast cancer acquires metastatic behavior, opening the possibility of new...
A stay at the Stem Cell Hotel
By Davide Danovi - Director, HipSci Cell Phenotyping Programme, Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London
All cells in our body came from one original cell - a fertilised egg. A blood...
The battle against polio – still work to be done
People of a certain age in the Western World will have haunting recollections of a disease that laid waste to vast numbers of young people. A cruel disease that filled sanitoriums with rows of...
Researchers are making great strides
We have made great strides in the fight against heart disease over the past 50 years. Since 1961, when the British Heart Foundation was established, the annual number of deaths from CVD in the...
The power of ideas
Information lies at the heart of everything we do. We are surrounded by information technology and it allows us to look at life with different eyes.
In fact, the development of information, could, it be...
Ultrapure water system passes big test
An innovative ultrapure water system has successfully tapped into healthcare diagnostics.
The pharmaceutical industry is embracing new technology that can reduce costs and simplify installation. At the production site of a multinational healthcare diagnostic test...
Revealed: the first wiring map of neurons in insect brain
Researchers have built the first ever map showing every single neuron and their wiring in the brain of the fruit fly larva.
This huge step forwards in science will ultimately help us understand the basic...
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...
Accreditation: Delivering Confidence in Health Services
The quality of health and social care services is under constant and close scrutiny. Professor Sir Mike Richards, Chief Inspector of Hospitals at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has recently acknowledged that accreditation and...
TWO NEW FORMS OF THERAPY GIVE HOPE WHEN BLOOD CANCER RETURNS AND BOWEL CANCER...
Scientists trial new way to boost CAR T-cell therapy
Cancer Research UK is collaborating with Aleta Biotherapeutics to trial a new therapy that reboots a treatment for some people whose blood cancer starts to come back.
The new...