Major steps being taken in battle against arthritis
Researchers from many disciplines are working together to ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis patients and potentially save the NHS millions of pounds on ineffective drugs.
Doctors can waste a long time prescribing different therapies...
With Great promise comes great responsibility
In the world of drug production, the search is relentless for treatments that can reduce the planet’s spiralling pharmaceutical bill by curing illness.
However, although billions of pounds is ploughed into developing new drugs, attention...
The Age of Cell Therapy Industry that takes advantage of pioneering research
For a cutting-edge technology, cell therapy has a surprisingly long history. Indeed, the idea of injecting living cells into a patient originated in the nineteenth century.
Although scientists’ early rudimentary attempts did not really work,...
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...
Patients who have had an irregular heart beat can’t ever be considered ‘cured’, say...
Patients with an abnormal heart rhythm that can leave them at a higher risk of suffering from stroke still need treatment even after their heart rhythm seems to have returned to normal, say researchers...
Cell line technology
By Frances Griss
One of the most exciting and rapidly growing fields of bioscience is the development of new cell lines with specific and controllable characteristics, either for research or industrial scale production.
Companies all over...
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...
Three-Parent Babies a step closer after regulations grant approval
Occasionally in the world of science, a breakthrough comes along that is so startling that it turns conventional thinking on its head.
That is the case with the latest research into the idea of three-person...
Gene editing success holds promise for preventing inherited diseases
Scientists have, for the first time, corrected a disease-causing mutation in early stage human embryos using gene editing.
The technique, which uses the CRISPR-Cas9 system, corrected the mutation for a heart condition at the earliest...
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...
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...
Three-parent baby technology clears final hurdle
When science is at its best, it pushes the boundaries of what is possible and makes us think about the big questions. Even if the issues it raises are deeply uncomfortable.
That has certainly been...
Crime Scene – International efforts target improvements in food safety
Food safety has never been higher on the international agenda as understanding the impact of what we eat on our health becomes ever more important.
As debates rage about the potential damage caused by the...
Genome editing technology moves forward
Editing the human genomeis a ground-breaking technique which is raising the hopes of millions of people afflicted by inherited disease.
Research has already made significant advances in possible therapies for diseases as diverse as sickle-cell...
Aiming high and encouraging young people into the world of science
Talk to anyone in the bioscience world and they will tell you that one of their major concerns is the dearth of young people coming out of schools, colleges and universities having studied science...
Ebola – the debate between clinical need and economic reality
The deadly outbreak of the ebola virus in West Africa in February 2014 initially went largely unnoticed by the global media even though it is one of the world’s most frightening illnesses.
Cases were detected...