Bringing patients and providers together one tweet at a time

As an open forum for human interaction, social media have become the great equalizer of health information – providing a means for patients and health care providers to connect outside of the hospital or...

The benefits of government apprenticeship reforms to employers

Apprenticeships offer employers large and small a fantastic opportunity to get the skilled workforce they need to grow their business. There are hundreds of thousands of employers up and down the country that are already...

The IP journey and risk mitigation

Paul Storer Senior Policy Adviser in the Business Support Policy Team at the IPO Resolving IP disputes can be costly and the Intellectual Property Office continues to seek to reduce costs for businesses, not only in...

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)...

90 years since Sir Alexander Fleming’s penicillin discovery changed antibiotic treatment

“My name is Sarah Whitlow and my paternal grandfather was Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. I have worked as a practice nurse at the Swan Surgery in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, since 1990,...

Life sciences – developments from the IPO’s perspective

Liz Coleman, Divisional Director at the Intellectual Property Office Welcome to our new regular feature on IP issues in the life sciences. Our aim is to keep you up to date on key IP issues in...

Life sciences – what’s the big deal?

People often ask me why life sciences are so important. For me, important things are those which have a clear impact on the future. Things to be addressed now rather than later. Things such as...

Patient capital is the key to unlocking growth in the life sciences sector

By Keith Morgan, CEO, British Business Bank The British Business Bank, as the UK’s national economic development bank, has a mission to make finance markets for smaller businesses operate more effectively, enabling those businesses to...

Urban development is attracting leading scientists and ambitious companies to the north

Newcastle Helix is the UK’s biggest urban development of its kind outside of London and has entered its next phase of development.  The £350m flagship project, brings together a community of academics, industry leaders, businesses...

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...