World-first generative AI tool designs enzymes for more sustainable industrial processes
ZymCTRL is the world’s first open-source, text-based enzyme generation model and can be used across multiple industries, including therapeutics and sustainability initiatives. The AI model can produce sequences that create functional enzymes with desirable...
MONMOUTH SCIENTIFIC: Creating clean air through recirculating technology
At Monmouth Scientific, we are committed to providing solutions that foster a clean and sustainable environment. Our key innovation is the use of recirculating technology, enhanced by activated carbon and HEPA filtration.
UNDERSTANDING RECIRCULATING TECHNOLOGY
Recirculating...
Bio-Britain: Kicking the UK’s fossil fuel habit with industrial biotechnology
Aline Miller, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Associate Dean of Business Engagement at The University of Manchester, explains how biotechnology can make the energy, manufacturing, and medical industries more sustainable.
Given how inconceivably complex they...
AI learns to speak the language of cancer
A computer system using AI to learn the language of cancer can spot the signs of the disease in biological samples with remarkable accuracy, its developers say.
An international team of AI specialists and cancer...
AI ‘massively accelerates’ quest for Parkinson’s disease treatments
Researchers from the University of Cambridge designed and used an AI-based strategy to identify compounds that block the clumping, or aggregation, of alpha-synuclein, the protein that characterises Parkinson’s.
The team used machine learning techniques to...
Healthcare regulators ‘must’ keep pace with AI advances
Head of Regulatory Affairs at InnoScot Health, Elaine Gemmell, analyses the current landscape.
The ability of regulators to keep pace with artificial intelligence (AI) is vital if it is to play a successful role in...
Pharma and regulatory giants discuss AI trust and legislative challenges
Urgent collaboration is needed to tackle challenges around AI regulation and use in life sciences, say experts.
A survey by the Pistoia Alliance reveals that 70% of life sciences experts recognise AI’s potential, but struggle...
Shocking stats reveal low awareness of AI laws in US and EU life sciences
Survey exposes knowledge gap surrounding AI legislation, with a fifth of respondents confirming regulations are blocking their research.
ust nine per cent of life science professionals have a good awareness of the impact of emerging...
AI causing ‘medical bias’ in tools and devices
Ethnic minorities, women and those from disadvantaged communities are at heightened risk of poorer healthcare due to a bias built into medical tools and devices, according to a recent report.
The Equity in Medical Devices:...
Quantum imaging creating ‘bright future’ for advanced microscopes
The unique properties of quantum physics could help solve a longstanding problem that prevents microscopes from producing sharper images at the smallest scales.
The research breakthrough, which uses entangled photons to create a new method...
Forget sweet dreams – sweet genes could explain why a bad night’s sleep makes...
Parents of newborns might feel like they have aged a few years in those early months of sleepless nights. Now, scientists at the University of Leicester are investigating whether the secret to both a...
3D bioprinter ‘first of its kind in the UK
Aston University is to get a state-of-the-art Quantum X bio 3D printer following a grant of £612,176 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)...
New device could replace animals used in drug and chemical safety testing
A novel 3D printed device that could replace the need for drug and chemical safety testing on animals has received new funding.
The plastic ‘body-on-chip’ device, invented at the University of Edinburgh, mimics how a...
Living brain cell networks ‘bioprinted’ in lab
By Prof. John Forsythe Lead Research, The Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Australian researchers have successfully used “bioinks” containing living nerve cells (neurons) to print 3D nerve networks that can grow in the laboratory and...
AI codebreakers: Dr Doolittle 2.0
Experts believe that decoding the communication systems of whales, crows, bats, and many other animals is within reach, following breath-taking advances in artificial intelligence research.
In an article published in Science, led by Professor Christian Rutz...
Improving lab sustainability with green solvents
Paul Vanden Branden, Director at SciMed, discusses how laboratories can update experimental methods and solvent selection to be more sustainable without harming results.
Research labs are complicated environments and it is not always clear what...