Renowned scientist Lord Winston visits The Epicentre in Haverhill
Renowned scientist and genetics expert Lord Robert Winston, visited the laboratory facilities at The EpiCentre in Haverhill on Thursday 24th April, to see the great steps being taken to bring bio-tech and life science businesses to the West Suffolk Town.
Endomag wins King’s Award For Enterprise In International Trade Category
Cambridge, UK - Endomag, one of the UK's fastest-growing MedTech companies, specialising in devices used for the treatment of breast cancer, has been recognised for its impressive growth in the UK and overseas with a 2024 King's Award for Enterprise.
Broken String Biosciences and the Francis Crick Institute collaborate to advance ALS research
Partnership to expand applications of DNA break-mapping technology and advance understanding of genomic instability in development of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
CMR Surgical and Kebomed partner to bring Versius to Denmark, Norway, and Finland
The partnership aims to make surgical robotics more widely accessible across the Nordics, so more patients can benefit from minimally invasive surgery.
Mystery risk factor linked to high rates of kidney cancer, major DNA study finds
Researchers analysing the DNA of people with kidney cancer worldwide have found evidence of an unknown trigger that could explain the longstanding mystery of why some countries* have a higher incidence of the disease.
Over 99% of GP’s reject GMS contract changes, with medics assembling to take industrial action
Following the announcement of the 2024/25 national GP General Medical Services (GMS) contract by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, over 99% of GPs have voted against it.
Gyros Protein Technologies introduces Gyrolab Generic Rodent ADA Kit Reagents to support preclinical immunogenicity assessment
Ready-to-use kit expands range of bioanalysis kits, and enables generic detection of immune complexes in rodent samples
Nuclera eProtein Discovery system installed at leading academic institutes
11 installs successfully completed Novel platform automates and accelerates protein production, enabling scale-up to mg amount in less than 48 hours List of institutes includes, University College London, University of Cambridge, University of Sout
ELRIG UK announces Profs Ijeoma Uchegbu and Marcus Schindler as Keynote Speakers at Drug Discovery 2024
Drug Discovery 2024: Connecting Minds, Transforming Science, Empowering Community will take place at ExCeL London from 2–3 October
Bio-Rad launches three StarBright Red Dyes and expands range of antibody markers conjugated to StarBright Violet Dyes to enhance immunology research
Bio-Rad's Range of StarBright Dyes Conjugated to Highly Validated Antibodies Now Totals 32 Dyes, Providing Greater Choice and Flexibility for Conventional and Full-Spectrum Flow Cytometry in Immunology Research.
eg technology publish case study on redesigning Endomag's Sentimag® surgical guidance system
Find out how eg technology worked with Endomag to develop the Sentimag® surgical guidance system designed to transform breast cancer care.
Professor Kai-Michael Toellner joins the Immunology programme as a senior group leader
Prof Kai-Michael Toellner is welcomed to the Institute as he joins the Institute as a senior group leader in the Immunology research programme. Prof. Toellner’s expertise in immune cell differentiation, antibody production and how long-term immune memory is formed is highly complementary to the work of the programme. He was previously Professor of Adaptive Immunology at the Institute of…
Endomag being sold to US firm for $310m
Cambridge breast cancer pioneer Endomag is set to become the latest UK bio business snapped up by America. The privately owned company is to be acquired by Hologic Inc – a NASDAQ-quoted firm based in Marlborough, Massachusetts – for $310 million.
Sphere Fluidics appoints Dale Levitzke as Chief Executive Officer
Dale Levitzke joins as Dr. Frank F. Craig, current CEO and co-founder, announces his retirement after leading the Company for 14 years.
PlaqueTec closes $8 million equity financing
The financing was led by Lord Moynihan of Chelsea alongside The Future Fund, with support from existing investors Funding will support ongoing BIOPATTERN trial and build BIOCARTA database to transform the treatment of CADCambridge, UK, 30
Communigage wins UK Enterprise Award
Here at Communigage, a messaging and employer brand strategy consulting firm for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we are thrilled to announce that we have been chosen as the winner of the 2024 SME News UK Enterprise Award for Best New SME Consulting Firm.
Global pharma companies’ return on R&D investment increases after record low
Projected return on innovation in pharma R&D in 2023 has risen to 4.1 per cent, indicating a potential recovery from the long term downward trend in R&D productivity; The top 20 global pharmaceutical companies spent $145 billion on R&D investments in 2022-23*; AI is yet to become a ‘game-changer’ in pharma R&D.
Asimov achieves 10x improvement in lentiviral production, launches new stable cell line development service
Stable lentiviral (LV) cell line development service achieves unconcentrated titers >1E9 TU/mL for therapeutic transgenes.
Guardtech Group off to a stormer in 2024 as action-packed quarter one flies by
Haverhill-based cleanroom design & build experts are working on more than 20 significant projects concurrently – an all-time high
How baby Aurelia’s story delights international experts
An international conference that heard about an Addenbrooke’s invention that can save babies lives received a surprise input from two unexpected guests – the parents of one of the first babies to benefit from it.
Abzena launches EpiScreen® 2.0 Immunogenicity platform
Abzena launches EpiScreen® 2.0, a next generation immunogenicity tool for de-risking the development of complex biologics and bioconjugates.
Registration open for our Scientific Conference in June
We are excited to announce that you can now secure your spot for the 2nd NIHR BioResource Scientific Conference, taking place online on Wednesday 19 June 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm.
A critical time for AI, dementia and better brain health
Ahead of BioBeat24, Iraida Soria-Espinosa, Senior Innovation & Business Manager at UK DRI, and Miranda Weston-Smith, Founder of BioBeat, caught up with keynote speaker Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.
Owlstone Medical secures $6.5 million to support development of breath-based diagnostics for infectious disease
$5 million equity investment and initial $1.5 million grant funding committed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for development of breath-based diagnostic solutions to improve outcomes in the developing world Funding represents the first time the foundation has taken an
Researchers aim to analyse pangenomes using quantum computing
A new collaboration brings together a world-leading interdisciplinary team with skills across quantum computing, genomics, and advanced algorithms. They aim to tackle one of the most challenging computational problems in genomic science: building, augmenting and analysing pangenomic datasets for large population samples. Their project sits at frontiers of research in both biomedical science and…