Cancer treatment gets boost from med-tech development
52 NORTH Health, a UK- and US-based med-tech start-up, has raised £1m in its first round of funding from British and European specialist investors.
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AI and machine learning bolster pharma data-analysis
A SPECIALIST in social intelligence for the pharmaceutical industry has developed a systematic way of measuring patients’ experience of taking medicines.
Glasgow-based Talking Medicines was...
University’s incubator programme selects cancer-fighting start-ups
TWENTY start-ups — eight of them operating projects in the field of cancer — have been selected for a University of Edinburgh incubator programme...
Prospecting goes orbital with satellite tech
A UK SATELLITE firm has won a multi-million-pound customer contract to construct a remote-sensing prospecting satellite.
Exobotics will design, manufacture, and test a CubeSat satellite...
UK sows seeds for farming breakthroughs
INNOVATIVE agricultural projects are in line for £30m in UK government funding.
In a push for sustainable food production, a fund has been set up...
Microbes making cleaner jet fuel a reality as history meets science
Innovators in the fields of fuel, steel and aviation reveal how a low-carbon aviation fuel made with steel process gases could revolutionise air travel....
A crazed new world: coronavirus, paranoia, and Zombie Apocalypse shopping tips
By Hal Williams
YOU WALK into the supermarket, intending to just pick up a few things, and wha…. ? The place is swarming. Shelves are...
Court proceedings mount against pharma firms behind OxyContin
JOHNSON & Johnson, Purdue Pharma and Israel-based firm Teva Pharmaceuticals are under increased legal pressure over their roles in the US’s opiate crisis.
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SpaceX launch for British climate satellite programme
BRITISH Earth-observation company Satellite Vu has signed another SpaceX launch contract for further thermal data collection.
Its mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imaging satellite will be launched...
The IP man cometh: China bows to international will
East is east and West is west, and our man in the middle, businessman LEO AUSTIN — UK-based but with decades of experience in...