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| Oct 13, 2020 | 3M Survey Reports Decline In Science Skepticism For First Time In 3 Years | A new multi-country survey from 3M finds that science skepticism has decreased for the first time in ... [+] three years.getty |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Could Drug-Resistant Bacteria Cause The Next Pandemic? | Venetians dressed as plague doctors pose during Carnival in their city's Piazza San Marco on ... [+] February 25, 2020. Their costume dates to the Italian Plague of 1629–1631. (Photo by Giacomo Cosua/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via G... |
| Jul 4, 2020 | Covid-19 Coronavirus Won’t Be Last Or Worst Pandemic, How To Stop Panic-Neglect Cycle | General view during a press conference of the World Health Organization (WHO) organised by the ... [+] Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, on July 3, 2020 ... |
| Jul 1, 2020 | Preliminary trial results find antiviral drug lopinavir/ritonavir does not reduce death in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 | Preliminary trial results find antiviral drug lopinavir/ritonavir does not reduce death in hospitalised patients with COVID-19
01-07-2020
The ‘RECOVERY’ trial has released preliminary results showing lopinavir/ritonavir, an antiviral drug c... |
| Jun 17, 2020 | Preliminary trial results find dexamethasone reduces death in hospitalised patients with severe respiratory complications of COVID-19 | Preliminary trial results find dexamethasone reduces death in hospitalised patients with severe respiratory complications of COVID-19
17-06-2020
The ‘RECOVERY’ trial has released preliminary results showing low-cost dexamethasone reduces de... |
| May 26, 2020 | Analysis of COVID-19 Genomes reveals large numbers of introductions to the UK in March | Analysis of COVID-19 Genomes reveals large numbers of introductions to the UK in March
26-05-2020
Data reports published by the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) show the value in mapping COVID-19 lineages across the UK to understand... |
| May 1, 2020 | How the UK life sciences industry is rising to the challenge of Covid-19 by Kate Bingham | Crisis is the mother of invention and Covid-19 is no exception. But amid all the gloom are signs of a nascent revolution in how we create and develop new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics. The UK life sciences industry is rising to the challe... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | Government launches Vaccine Taskforce to combat coronavirus | A new Vaccine Taskforce will drive forward, expedite and co-ordinate efforts to research and then produce a coronavirus vaccine.
Rapid development and production of a coronavirus vaccine will be driven by a new government-led Vaccine Taskfo... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | Government launches Vaccine Taskforce to combat coronavirus | Government launches Vaccine Taskforce to combat coronavirus
20-04-2020
A new Vaccine Taskforce will drive forward, expedite and co-ordinate efforts to research and then produce a coronavirus vaccine.
Rapid development and production of a co... |
| Feb 16, 2020 | Could COVID-19 Spur A Revolution In Vaccine Development? | The daily reports out of Asia about COVID-19 (formerly the Wuhan Coronavirus) are driving a lot of fear of spreading contagion, and our hearts go out to the people of Hubei province and across China who are suffering terribly. But there is ... |
| Feb 11, 2020 | Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science | February 11th marks the UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science – a call to action to remove any barriers that hold women back from following their curiosity about science. At LifeArc, where 50% of employees are women, we asked... |
| Jan 29, 2020 | Record Funding For Global Health Research, But Neglected Tropical Diseases Remain Neglected | LEOGANE, HAITI - MAY 25: Two female patients of Dr. Luccene Desir, director of the Center of ... [+] Research for Filariasis in Haiti (elephantiasis) display their legs affected by elephantiasis at a hospital in Leogane, south of Pt-au-Prin... |
| Sep 22, 2019 | Farewell foot and mouth? UK’s Pirbright grants license for ‘Holy Grail’ vaccine | Britain’s leading vaccinology center, the Pirbright Institute, is on the global front lines of preventing the spread of all manner of livestock diseases. Among them are various closely watched lab tests on pigs injected with African Swine F... |
| Sep 9, 2019 | Start of clinical trials for LimmaTech’s Shigella vaccine | |
| Jul 29, 2019 | Wellcome Trust joins warning for no-deal Brexit, calls on Boris Johnson to cast R&D vision | Boris Johnson may have pledged to continue building on Britain’s “enormous strengths” in life science as he blazes a path toward Brexit, but one of the country’s top funders of biomedical research is demanding more.
In a let... |
| Jul 29, 2019 | Wellcome Trust says no-deal Brexit could threaten UK’s life sciences stature | She also expressed concerns about a so-called no-deal Brexit, whereby the country would leave the E.U. without an agreement in place formalizing the country’s relationship with the bloc.
Johnson assumed the role of prime minister last week ... |
| Mar 4, 2019 | ContraFect Announces $6.94M In Funding From CARB-X | YONKERS, N.Y., March 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ContraFect Corporation (Nasdaq:CFRX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of protein and antibody therapeutics for life-threatening, drug-resistan... |
| Nov 6, 2018 | Big Boost For Open Access As Wellcome And Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Back EU's 'Plan S' | Back in September, Techdirt wrote about the oddly-named ‘Plan S‘, which was nonetheless an important step forward for open access in Europe. As we remarked then, the hope was that others would support the initiative, and that has now happen... |
| Oct 16, 2018 | This Is How Therapists Deal When Patients Kill Themselves | As I interview Beth, a social worker based in the US, over Skype, she rifles through paperwork looking for an envelope with the name Toby* on it, which contains a photograph, a funeral card, and some drawings. One of the things on Beth’s bu... |
| Sep 20, 2018 | Addex Receives £1.2 million Funding from the Wellcome Trust | |
| Mar 25, 2018 | Ninja Theory’s masterful Hellblade will debut on Xbox One on April 11 | Ninja Theory announced that it will publish Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice on the Xbox One and enhanced for Xbox One X on April 11.
The game debuted last summer on the PC, and it was my favorite title of the year. Hellblade captures the journ... |
| Mar 25, 2018 | Ninja Theory’s masterful Hellblade will debut on Xbox One on April 11 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ninja Theory announced that it will publish Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice on the Xbox One and enhanced for Xbox One X on April 11.
The g... |
| Jan 9, 2018 | New ‘cell map’ reveals intricate details of mammalian development | New ‘cell map’ reveals intricate details of mammalian development
09-01-2018
Cambridge scientists have used cutting-edge technology to profile over 20,000 individual cells from the developing embryo to produce the first ‘cell map’ describin... |
| Dec 22, 2017 | The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2017 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We had another wonderful year of creativity and smash hits in the $116 billion game business in 2017. My favorite games of the year ref... |
| Dec 7, 2017 | Hellblade wins ‘games for impact’ at The Game Awards for depicting mental illness | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice won the “Games for Impact” award tonight at The Game Awards. The PlayStation 4/PC game is an unflinching p... |
| Oct 22, 2017 | Game boss interview: Tameem Antoniades’s journey into madness with Hellblade | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is one of the best games of the year, with its terrifying account of a warrior’s journey into the depths o... |
| Oct 22, 2017 | Game boss interview: Tameem Antoniades’s journey into madness with Hellblade | Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is one of the best games of the year, with its terrifying account of a warrior’s journey into the depths of the Norse underworld — and into madness itself.
The game from British game studio Ninja Theory came out... |
| Aug 8, 2017 | Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice review — an insane quest in a nightmare world | Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is both great and terrifying, taking the player on a journey into madness.
In the game from British game studio Ninja Theory, the Celtic warrior Senua struggled with inner demons locked in a battle over her mind... |
| Aug 8, 2017 | Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice review — an insane quest in a nightmare world | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is both great and terrifying, taking the player on a journey into madness.
In the game from British game s... |
| Aug 2, 2017 | Wellcome Trust supports Polyphor and Neurotune | |
| Apr 13, 2017 | Polyphor raises CHF 40 million in financing round | |
| Mar 30, 2017 | CARB-X dishes out $48M in grants to antimicrobial startups | Launched in mid-2016, CARB-X stands for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator. It comes in response to the growing threat of drug-resistant infections — and the concerning lack of late-stage antibacterial dru... |
| Mar 15, 2017 | David Beier Op-Ed: The World Is Completely Unprepared for a Global Pandemic | Article in Harvard Business Review
In 2003 a doctor with SARS unknowingly infected several guests while staying at a Hong Kong hotel, and overnight the virus reached across the globe. China is currently battling a bird flu that kills nearl... |
| Feb 28, 2017 | ResearchGate, the social network for scientists, announces funding of $52.6 million | ResearchGate, the social network for scientists and researchers, has raised $52.6 million from several investors including Wellcome Trust, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, and Four Rivers Group.
Other participants in the round included As... |
| Feb 6, 2017 | Exonate Receives £4.9M Award by Wellcome Trust | Exonate, a Cambridge, UK-based early stage biotechnology company, received a £4.9m Seeding Drug Discovery award by the Wellcome Trust.
The company – which recently closed a £1.5m funding round from new and existing shareholders – will use t... |
| Nov 7, 2016 | Syncona, CRUK and BACIT join forces to create a $1.2B biotech investment powerhouse | Wellcome Director Jeremy Farrar
The Wellcome Trust’s independent investment subsidiary Syncona is merging with the public investment firm BACIT to create an expanded, $1.2 billion investment outfit listed on the L... |
| Sep 12, 2016 | Phononic raises $30 million to rethink refrigeration | A startup based in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, Phononic, wants to make refrigeration and temperature control far more efficient, and steadier, than is possible with traditional systems.
Instead of relying on vapor compressors, ... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | A new e-journal could be a ‘game-changer.’ But will scientists come? | If you build a new publishing platform, will they come?
That’s the question that is on some minds after the Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s largest funders of biomedical research, announced this week the launch of a new e-journal. The ne... |
| May 6, 2016 | With billions in the bank, a ‘visionary’ doctor tries to change the world | LONDON — Dr. Jeremy Farrar, the director of one of the world’s biggest and most influential medical charities, is not an easy man to track down.
Ask people who have tried and they will either cluck sympathetically or burst into gales of lau... |
| May 2, 2016 | If Open Sharing Of Data Is A Great Idea For Combatting A Dangerous Plant Disease, Why Not For All Human Diseases? | Wheat blast may not be uppermost in the minds of many Techdirt readers, but as the following explains, it’s a serious plant disease that is spreading around the world: |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Quethera awarded Wellcome Trust Pathfinder grant | Quethera awarded Wellcome Trust Pathfinder grant
08-03-2016
Quethera Ltd, a privately funded gene therapy company based at the Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge, has obtained a grant from the Wellcome Trust Pathfinder Award Scheme. Quet... |
| Feb 11, 2016 | Morning Read: Mylan acquires Sweden’s Meda for $9.9B, pharmacists fight opioid addiction | Pharmacists have become de facto “drug cops” in the fight against opioid abuse. Some are actually comfortable with the role. — STAT
A global coalition of nearly three dozen medical journals, NGOs and research funders (think NIH, the Wellcom... |
| Feb 10, 2016 | Zika threat prompts sweeping scientific collaboration | The often-hermetic world of scientific research and publishing is making an exception for the Zika virus. Thirty organizations, including scientific journals, nonprofit groups, and research institutes, announced jointly Wednesday that they ... |
| Jan 25, 2016 | Mucosis Secures €5.7M in Funding | Mucosis B.V., a Groningen, The Netherlands-based clinical stage biotechnology company, secured €5.7m in funding.
The Wellcome Trust provided the funding.€3.7m translational fund award while current backers made an additional €2m equity inve... |
| Jan 7, 2016 | Elastagen Closes A$13M Series B Financing | Elastagen Pty Ltd, a Sidney, Australia-based clinical stage medical company developing products based on a proprietary recombinant human tropoelastin platform technology, closed an A$13m Series B financing round.
Backers included new invest... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Learning from Ebola: Why the world needs to take MERS more seriously | When Ebola erupted across West Africa in the spring and summer of 2014, public health officials desperate to halt its deadly spread faced a grim reality. Licensed medical tools to cure the sick and prevent new infections did not exist.
The ... |
| Sep 30, 2015 | The Wellcome Library keeps medical history alive with Preservica | In advance of the 2015 Nobel Prize announcement, Preservica future proofs over 1m pages of the 1962 DNA Prize winning collection, including the famous ‘Photo 51’
Wellcome Library chooses Preservica to safeguard its online medical resource, ... |
| Jun 30, 2015 | Science funding should go to people, not projects | Prominent American biologist Ronald Germain, has recently published a remarkable suggestion about research funding in the top bioscience journal Cell.
He concludes that the historical US project grant funding systems are no longer working. ... |
| May 12, 2015 | Antibiotic resistant typhoid detected in countries around the world | Antibiotic resistant typhoid detected in countries around the world
12-05-2015
Unappreciated global spread of multiple antimicrobial resistant typhoid mapped by international consortium
Global surveillance at this scale is critical to addre... |
| Apr 20, 2015 | Queen’s University Belfast & Domainex collaborate to advance novel lung cancer drug research | Queen’s University Belfast & Domainex collaborate to advance novel lung cancer drug research
20-04-2015
Dr Dan Longley’s research team at Queen’s University Belfast, and Domainex Ltd., specialists in drug discovery solutionsand translat... |
| Mar 5, 2015 | Health tech: Why epidemiology in the age of Dr Google is nothing to sneeze at | Being stuck in bed, waiting for the flu to run its course, is pretty unpleasant. And it’s also really boring. What else is there to do but search for symptoms online, and read entries about the flu on Wikipedia or WebMD or post messages on ... |
| Jan 30, 2015 | Research aids understanding of cellular ageing | Research aids understanding of cellular ageing
30-01-2015
Researchers at the BBSRC-supported Babraham Institute have mapped the physical structure of the nuclear landscape in unprecedented detail to understand changes in genomic interaction... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | BioVersys and Université de Lille achieve first milestone in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline | |
| Nov 21, 2014 | Brain-dwelling worm in UK man’s head sequenced | Brain-dwelling worm in UK man’s head sequenced
21-11-2014
For the first time, the genome of a rarely seen tapeworm has been sequenced. The genetic information of this invasive parasite, which lived for four years in a UK resident’s brain, o... |
| Oct 21, 2014 | Sanger Institute researcher collaborates on story of love and flu | Sanger Institute researcher collaborates on story of love and flu
21-10-2014
A radio drama about love and flu produced in collaboration with Professor Paul Kellam, a member of Faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, starts on Radio ... |
| Oct 21, 2014 | Global Alliance for Genomics and Health members meet to advance genomic data sharing | Global Alliance for Genomics and Health members meet to advance genomic data sharing
21-10-2014
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health convened its second major meeting of 2014 yesterday (Monday), bringing together more than 250 intern... |
| Oct 3, 2014 | Investors Stay Silent After Wonga Fiasco | Online payday loans company, Wonga, which pitched itself as a technology startup and attracted investment from multiple high profile tech investors, yesterday agreed to write off the loans of 330,000 customers, and waive the interest and fe... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Two AirStrip customers take part in $25M fundraise to move into home health market | Gary and Mary West Health Investment Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Wellcome Trust led the investment round. Leerink Partners also took part in the financing.
Update In a phone interview with MedCity News, Portela said this year it has been ram... |
| Aug 6, 2014 | Bidwells advises on largest global deal of its kind | Bidwells advises on largest global deal of its kind
06-08-2014
The Wellcome Trust's acquisition of The Co-operative Group's farm business for £249million, the biggest agri-investment deal in the UK to date and the largest global deal of its... |
| Jul 31, 2014 | New malaria vaccine candidates identified | New malaria vaccine candidates identified
31-07-2014
Researchers have discovered new vaccine targets that could help in the battle against malaria. Taking a new, large-scale approach to this search, researchers tested a library of proteins ... |
| May 30, 2014 | BioVersys collaborates with GlaxoSmithKline | |
| May 16, 2014 | Kymab Raises US$40M in Series B Financing | Kymab, a Cambridge, UK-based monoclonal antibody biopharmaceutical company, raised US$40m in Series B financing.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joined existing investor the Wellcome Trust, each investing US$20m.
The company intends... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | Mosaic: The Publishing Of Science, And The Science Of Publishing | The UK-based Wellcome Trust is the second-largest non-governmental funder of medical research after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It was one of the main backers of the Human Genome Project, which pioneered the idea of open data b... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | Out of Africa: the evolution of Plasmodium vivax | Out of Africa: the evolution of Plasmodium vivax
21-02-2014
Researchers have shown that Plasmodium vivax, which causes the majority of human malaria infections in Asia and Latin America, actually originated in Africa.
The team found that wi... |
| Oct 18, 2013 | Scientists discover genetic disease which causes recurrent respiratory infections | Scientists discover genetic disease which causes recurrent respiratory infections
18-10-2013
Cambridge scientists have discovered a rare genetic disease which predisposes patients to severe respiratory infections and lung damage. Because th... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | Treventis Corporation Receives $4.4M Seeding Drug Discovery Award from the Wellcome Trust | Southeastern Pennsylvania-based Treventis Corporation received a $4.4m Seeding Drug Discovery Award from the Wellcome Trust.
The company will use the funds to continue development of a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Thi... |
| Aug 29, 2013 | Parasitic worm genome uncovers potential drug targets | Parasitic worm genome uncovers potential drug targets
29-08-2013
Researchers have identified five enzymes that are essential to the survival of a parasitic worm that infects livestock worldwide and is a great threat to global food security.... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | GlycoVaxyn AG secures CHF 5.1 million Award from the Wellcome Trust | |
| Jul 9, 2013 | New opportunities to treat bowel cancer | New opportunities to treat bowel cancer
09-07-2013
Researchers have discovered the genetic processes that cause specific types of bowel cancer. Using this knowledge, they identified cancer drugs that target these genes. Their findings offer... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | Sanger Institute researchers spark discussion on genomes and healthcare | Sanger Institute researchers spark discussion on genomes and healthcare
02-07-2013
The Sanger Institute is sending 50 of its researchers to this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition to take visitors on a journey through genetic di... |
| Jun 17, 2013 | Professor Mike Stratton knighted in Queen’s Birthday Honours list | Professor Mike Stratton knighted in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
17-06-2013
Professor Mike Stratton, Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - whose research career has focused on understanding cancer - was awarded a knighthood in ... |
| May 30, 2013 | Malaria’s severity reset by mosquito | Malaria’s severity reset by mosquito
30-05-2013
For the first time, researchers have proven that the way in which malaria is transmitted to the host affects how severe the resulting infection will be.
The route of infection modifies the mal... |
| May 15, 2013 | Crowdsourcing for scientists, caregiver portal among Tigerlabs health IT accelerator grads | In an interview with MedCity News, Tigerlabs Managing Partner Bert Navarrete talked about some of the tweaks it is making to its programs. It’s increasing the time frame for its three-month health IT accelerator track to six months in which... |
| Apr 29, 2013 | Scientists 'fingerprint' malaria parasite drug resistance | Scientists 'fingerprint' malaria parasite drug resistance
29-04-2013
A worldwide collaboration of researchers has shown that resistance to the frontline antimalarial drug – artemisinin – can be identified by surveying the genomes of parasit... |
| Apr 19, 2013 | Evolving genes lead to evolving genes | Evolving genes lead to evolving genes
19-04-2013
Researchers have designed a method that can universally test for evolutionary adaption, or positive (Darwinian) selection, in any chosen set of genes, using re-sequencing data such as that ge... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Fishing for solutions | Fishing for solutions
18-04-2013
Equipped with the zebrafish genome, researchers have designed a method to assay the function of each and every gene and to explore the effects genetic variation has on zebrafish. So far the team has generate... |
| Mar 15, 2013 | What are your views on what happens to your genomic information? | What are your views on what happens to your genomic information?
15-03-2013
Would you want to know about your genetic risk for hundreds of conditions all in one go, ranging from whether you have a higher than average risk from Alzheimer’s d... |
| Mar 14, 2013 | Tapeworm DNA contains drug weak spots | Tapeworm DNA contains drug weak spots
14-03-2013
For the first time, researchers have mapped the genomes of tapeworms to reveal potential drug targets on which existing drugs could act. The genomes provide a new resource that offers faster ... |
| Jan 23, 2013 | Director awarded prestigious prize | Director awarded prestigious prize
23-01-2013
Professor Mike Stratton, Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, has been awarded the 2013 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, a major European award recognising excellence in biomedical ... |
| Dec 7, 2012 | Babraham Institute research provides insight into DNA reprogramming | Babraham Institute research provides insight into DNA reprogramming
07-12-2012
Babraham Institute scientists have gained a new understanding of when and how the DNA in developing egg and sperm cells is 'reset', in preparation for making a n... |
| Dec 3, 2012 | Insights into the genetic causes of coronary artery disease and heart attacks | Insights into the genetic causes of coronary artery disease and heart attacks
03-12-2012
In the largest genetic study of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) to date, researchers from the CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium report the identification of 1... |
| Nov 14, 2012 | Bacterial DNA sequence used to map an infection outbreak | Bacterial DNA sequence used to map an infection outbreak
14-11-2012
For the first time, researchers have used DNA sequencing to help bring an infectious disease outbreak in a hospital to a close.
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger I... |
| Oct 26, 2012 | C’est difficile | C’est difficile
26-10-2012
In a new study out today, researchers used mice to identify a combination of six naturally occurring bacteria that eradicate a highly contagious form of Clostridium difficile, an infectious bacterium associated wi... |
| Sep 6, 2012 | Human genome far more active than thought | Human genome far more active than thought
06-09-2012
The GENCODE Consortium expects the human genome has twice as many genes than previously thought, many of which might have a role in cellular control and could be important in human diseas... |
| Aug 3, 2012 | Close to the bone | Close to the bone
03-08-2012
A genetic screening approach to studying bone disease has found nine new genes associated with bone health and suggests a new way to discover genes that may be implicated in human skeletal diseases. This collabo... |
| Jun 11, 2012 | Babraham research provides new insight into placental growth and healthy pregnancy | Babraham research provides new insight into placental growth and healthy pregnancy
11-06-2012
Scientists at the Babraham Institute have gained a new understanding of how the growth of the placenta is regulated before birth, which has import... |
| May 22, 2012 | Phagenesis Awarded £1M from the Wellcome Trust | Phagenesis Ltd, a Manchester Science Park-based provider of technology designed to treat patients who are dysphagic following a stroke, has been awarded c. £1m from the Wellcome Trust.
Led by CEO Daniel Green, Phagenesis has developed a cli... |
| May 18, 2012 | Untangling the development of breast cancer | Untangling the development of breast cancer
18-05-2012
In two back-to-back reports published online in Cell, researchers have sequenced the genomes of 21 breast cancers and analysed the mutations that emerged during the tumours’ development... |
| May 17, 2012 | Understanding breast cancer | Understanding breast cancer
17-05-2012
In a study just published in Nature, researchers describe nine new genes that drive the development of breast cancer. This takes the tally of all genes associated with breast cancer development to 40.
... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | University of Cambridge and Babraham Institute unveil new epigenetics research technique | University of Cambridge and Babraham Institute unveil new epigenetics research technique
27-04-2012
Collaboration between scientists at Cambridge University and the Babraham Institute have demonstrated a new technique that will significantl... |
| Apr 2, 2012 | Former head of Sanofi vaccines division becomes infectious disease biotech CEO | Last year, it was granted a five-year research grant valued up to $196 million by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to fund the development of seasonal and ... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | The Wellcome Trust Launches £200M Business to Invest in Healthcare and Life Sciences Businesses | The Wellcome Trust, a London, Uk-based charitable foundation dedicated to achieving improvements in human and animal health, is launching a new business focused on investing in emerging businesses and technologies in the healthcare and life... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | What have we got in common with a gorilla? | What have we got in common with a gorilla?
08-03-2012
Researchers have announced that they have completed the genome sequence for the gorilla – the last genus of the living great apes to have its genome decoded. While confirming that our cl... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | When is a gene not a gene? | When is a gene not a gene?
17-02-2012
Researchers have developed a new catalogue to help identify gene variations associated with disease.
A high-quality reference catalogue of the genetic changes that result in the deactivation of human ge... |
| Feb 6, 2012 | Siblings' brain scan could hold key to drug addiction | Siblings' brain scan could hold key to drug addiction
06-02-2012
Researchers funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) at the University of Cambridge have identified a brain abnormality which is found in drug-dependent individuals as wel... |
| Dec 23, 2011 | PTC Therapeutics Receives $5M Seeding Drug Discovery (SDD) Award from the Wellcome Trust | PTC Therapeutics, Inc., a South Plainfield, NJ-based biopharmaceutical company has received a $5m Seeding Drug Discovery (SDD) Award from the Wellcome Trust.
The company intends to use the funding for the development of small-molecule drugs... |
| Dec 22, 2011 | PTC Therapeutics gets $5 million drug development award | Of the 1.7 million hospital-acquired bacterial infections that cause or contribute to nearly 100,000 deaths in the United States each year, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gram-negative bacteria a... |
| Dec 15, 2011 | Wistar secures $4.7M to develop Epstein-Barr-related cancer drug | The new therapeutic could be the first to treat cancers related to Epstein-Barr by attacking the virus as it remains dormant in a patient’s cells.
The funding for the three-year, multistage effort will be based on meeting research milestone... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | From gene to function | From gene to function
01-12-2011
Genome-wide study investigates new gene functions in the formation of platelets.
In a study into the genetics of blood cell formation, researchers have identified 68 regions of the genome that affect the siz... |