Velvet Worm slime could inspire sustainable synthetic materials
Fibers produced from the slime exhibit a strength akin to nylon, yet they can dissolve in water and be reconstituted into new fibers.
n the tropical, temperate forests it calls home, the velvet worm uses...
Lab-grown ‘mini-stomachs’ could shed light on children’s COVID symptoms
A ‘lab-grown model’ of the human stomach, that can be used to study how infections affect the gastrointestinal system, has been developed for the first time.
A UCL-led team of international scientists have built on...
Research deepens understanding of malaria parasite
Science carried out in Nottingham helped to form the foundation for the latest breakthrough in the global fight against malaria.
Researchers in the University of Nottingham’s School of Life Sciences were responsible for the identification...
Unravelling the DNA dilemma: A new chapter in rare disease research
‘Hope is not lost’ for the 50 per cent of people with undiagnosed rare diseases, says UK genomics expert Neil Ward, of PacBio. New technologies can provide more accurate, in-depth data on the genome,...
Health WildCard winner builds library of biological profiles
Digital digital health company iLoF has received $5m in funding to accelerate its mission of improving access to personalised medicine for millions of people living with complex diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.
Initially backed by EIT...
Biosimilars set to make significant UK impact
Biosimilar medicines - equivalent biological products which have no meaningful differences from the original or reference product in terms of quality, safety or efficacy - are playing an important role in providing choice for...
The cell that remembers allergies
Researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery: a new cell that remembers allergies.
The discovery gives scientists and researchers a new target in treating allergies and could lead to new therapeutics, according to research published in...
Tackling critical health challenges in space
New research by The University of Manchester will enhance the power of bioprinting technology, opening doors to transform advances in medicine and address critical health challenges faced by astronauts during space missions.
Bioprinting involves using...
Shaping the science of oncology
Dr Fiona McLaughlin is the new Chief Scientific Officer of Avacta’s Therapeutics Division. She talks to Karen Southern about her mission to develop first and best-in-class cancer drugs.
From the day that Dr McLaughlin –...
New life sciences cluster in Paddington will champion health partnerships
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has set out its vision for a new life sciences cluster in Paddington, founded on its growing partnerships with research, industry and community organisations around St Mary’s Hospital.
The Trust...
TEAM TASKED WITH GIVING US FIVE EXTRA YEARS OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
The National Innovation Centre for Ageing is based in The Catalyst, the stunning new building with a glass façade rearing like a horse’s head out of the 24-acre, £350m science park that is the...
Limiting damage from an asthma attack could stop disease
Scientists at King’s College London have discovered a new cause for asthma that sparks hope for treatment that could prevent the life-threatening disease.
Most current asthma treatments stem from the idea that it is an...
Synthetic routes to pharmaceuticals greatly expanded’
Crystallographers provide medicinal chemists with 1,800 additional pharmaceutical building blocks, leading to new and more effective treatments.
A search of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) has found nearly 1800 conglomerate crystal structures — molecules that...
Calculating risk scores for Alzheimer’s
A new epigenetics collaboration has been announced between Sheffield Hallam University and PharmaKure, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing precision medicines for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases.
The partnership will focus on ‘gene-based...
Nanochannels light the way to new medicine
The development of new drugs and vaccines requires detailed knowledge about nature’s smallest biological building blocks – biomolecules. Swedish researchers have devised a new microscopy technique that allows proteins, DNA and other tiny biological...
New material to treat wounds can protect against resistant bacteria
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new material that prevents infections in wounds – a specially designed hydrogel, that works against all types of bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant ones. The new...