100 experts from Graphcore, Arm, Google and Stripe come together to support the next generation of Cambridge startups
Founders at the University of Cambridge opens applications to its first pre-seed accelerator.
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Autopickr presents Gus, its adaptable asparagus harvester, at REAP
An affordable, robust asparagus-harvesting robot called Gus that offers potential to extend the harvesting season and shelf-life of the high-value crop was presented by Cambridge-based Autopickr at Agri-TechE’s REAP Conference 2023. The company presented in the REAP Start-Up Showcase, which saw presentations from early-stage companies that are addressing increasingly urgent real-world problems…
Yourgene Health becomes a PacBio Compatible Partner: enabling PacBio customers to optimise size selection for long-read sequencing libraries
Yourgene’s LightBench® instrument offers precise and accurate size selection of PacBio® SMRTbell® sequencing libraries increasing HiFi sequencing yields
High accuracy sample positioner now offers up to 800 µm travel
Queensgate’s NanoScan SP800 nanopositioning sample scanner offers high-accuracy positioning performance for longer ranges.
Glox Therapeutics secures £4.3M seed funding to develop precision antimicrobials targeting drug-resistant bacteria
Glox Therapeutics Secures £4.3M Seed Funding to Develop Precision Antimicrobials Targeting Drug-resistant Bacteria
Marginal gains – The pursuit of perfect design
Flynn Product Design writes...In the industrial design space, the pursuit of achieving perfect design is never-ending. Often when people are looking to solve a problem or improve their work, they seek a single transformative solution to address all the issues.
Expand your horizons: think big with a Cleanroom Solutions turnkey project
Let the Guardtech Group heritage business take away the hassle of building the large-scale facility of your dreams
New health technology will protect self-driving car manufacturers
electronRx Limited writes...
![Agri-TechE’s 2023 REAP conference started with a Farmer's Breakfast, sponsored by Savills, which gave farmers the opportunity to talk to the keynote speakers: David Exwood, Vice President of the National Farmers Union (left) and Prof. Gideon Henderson, Chief Scientist at Defra (right), pictured with Dr Belinda Clarke, Director of Agri-TechE. [credit: Agri-TechE / StillVision Photography]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_card/public/David%20Exwood%2C%20Belinda%20Clarke%20and%20Gideon%20Henderson%20%28CamNet%29.jpg?itok=L9jtam3Q)
Extreme events driving innovation in agri-tech, REAP conference reveals
The NFU Vice-President, David Exwood, and Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Gideon Henderson, were the keynote speakers at Agri-TechE’s REAP Conference 2023, which also saw presentations from early-stage companies that are addressing increasingly urgent real-world problems from a different perspective.
Get to know the Governance and Ethics team at the NIHR BioResource
Who are they, what a day looks like in the team and everything involved in making our Governance and Ethics team one of the key resources as part of the NIHR BioResource!
Snakes and Ladders - navigating your investment journey
A workshop for tech founders and directors who are new to the investment journey.
How to build vital space for recovery into your change plans
It’s vital that we have space to recover during and after significant events and project and programme milestones. This space can help us regroup, learn and stay galvanised for whatever the next steps might be.
Yourgene Health and Laboriad launch non-invasive prenatal testing in Morocco
Yourgene Health installs first NIPT platform, the IONA test, in Morrocco, enabling Laboriad to offer safe, fast and accurate prenatal testing to expectant parents
Managing resignations – Following the eti-quit
At the height of the so-called Great Resignation (in the second quarter of 2021), 3.2% of employed people changed jobs. Annualised up that would be about one in eight employees. If your business has been around that long, the chances are you have experienced resignations in the recent past. We look at how best to manage resignations within your business.
Horizon37 is endorsed by the Scaleup Insitute as an exemplar scaleup programme
We are honoured and grateful to announce that Horizon37 has received an endorsement from the ScaleUp Institute as an exemplar scale up programme. Specifically, the recognition of our methods, delivery and tools as creating demonstrable high impact to the scale up businesses we partner with is something we are very proud of. WHAT WE DO WORKS. Read about our endorsement here: https://www…
Prior Scientific achieves EcoVadis sustainability award
Prior Scientific achieves EcoVadis sustainability award
First wireless map of worm’s nervous system revealed
Researchers have built the first ever map showing how every single neuron in the nervous system of a tiny worm communicates wirelessly.
Cambridge based Anthias Consulting wins ‘Supplier Excellence’ Award
Local Cambridge woman-owned company Anthias Consulting Ltd was shortlisted for two awards at this year Lab Awards which were held at the Lab Innovations exhibition at the Birmingham NEC on the 1st of November.
Q+A: Mission Street on how its 1.5m sq ft life sciences pipeline can bridge the gap
Growing company has identified lack of space in sector hotspots.
Polygenic scores: why one size does not fit all - podcast and new briefings
Opinions on whether polygenic scores should be used in health care - imminently or in the longer term - seem to be divided, with stakeholders, at least in the public domain, tending to one side or the other.
Innovation in Action event in Cambridge to highlight the benefits of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Businesses that invest in innovation have higher growth and productivity, and export more.
SPT Labtech launches firefly® for LDT to streamline liquid handling in NGS-based Laboratory Developed Tests
New software features and enhancements have been designed to support the rigorous and expanding needs of clinical laboratories
Expanding Springboard’s commitment to delivering user-centred excellence
Introducing our new senior Human Factors lead: Marcu Agunloye.
MedTech product design: balancing constraints for commercial success
At Team Consulting, we have been helping our clients develop elegant solutions to complex healthcare challenges for 37 years. One of the key challenges in this space is how to cost effectively innovate in the highly constrained and regulated world of MedTech product design.
The role of prototypes in the product design process
With the growing popularity of digital product design and UX design the word prototypes is becoming synonymous with digital mock-ups and testing apps.