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New Blood Test Brings Cheaper Hepatitis B Diagnosis
European and African researchers are developing a hepatitis B blood test that could help identify patients in Africa’s poorest regions…
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News and Trends 19 Feb 2018
Organ-on-a-Chip Technology Used to Spot New Hepatitis B Drug Targets
Scientists in London are the first in the world to test how pathogens like the hepatitis B virus interact with…
News and Trends 18 Jan 2018
Meet the 10 Promising Synbio Startups in RebelBio’s London Cohort
Irish accelerator RebelBio has launched its latest cohort of startups that will receive its support during a 3-month program at…
News and Trends 12 Jan 2018
These Biomaterials Could Help to Make Stem Cell Therapies a Reality
British researchers have developed biomaterials that better recreate the conditions required for stem cells to grow into desired cell types.…
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News and Trends 12 Jul 2017
British Researchers “Calm Down” Macrophages to treat Inflammation
Imperial College London and Ergon Pharmaceuticals have a new enzyme target to treat inflammatory disease by reducing the activity of…
News and Trends 6 Jun 2017
Imperial College Moves its Startup Incubator to a Bigger Facility in West London
Last Friday, the Duke of York opened Imperial's newest facilities in the White City campus, where the university is relocating…
News and Trends 5 May 2017
Forget Chemical Synthesis, Yeast can Now Synthesize Complex Antibiotics
A new study presents a novel synthetic biology approach for antibiotic synthesis in yeast that could tackle the huge challenge…
News and Trends 22 Feb 2017
UK’s Joint Venture Bridging Academia and Industry is Ready for Kick Off
Apollo Therapeutics is a UK-based joint venture bridging academia and industry to drive the translation of university research. Its first four drug discovery programmes will…
News and Trends 28 Nov 2016
Finally a Cure for the Common Cold? And it’s Needle-free!
Mucosis is starting Phase I trials for SynGEM, a needle-free vaccine against RSV, which causes 200k deaths per year and…
News and Trends 14 Nov 2016
USB key Diagnostic could help manage HIV Treatment Anywhere
A new method of gene sequencing has brought us an HIV diagnostic on a "USB stick", which determines the levels…
News and Trends 12 Nov 2016
The sound of this Spider Silk Violin surprises Expert Musicians
Last week, Imperial College London hosted the International Student Innovation Awards. The winner astonished everyone with a violin made with spider…
News and Trends 4 Oct 2016
One Step Closer to an HIV Cure That Can Eliminate the Latent Virus
HIV has completely disappeared from the blood of a patient in clinical trials. The new HIV treatment that can target the virus even…
News and Trends 4 May 2016
How the UK is Engineering Bacteria to produce Propane for Greener Fuels
Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology are working in engineering a microbe capable of producing propane - an increasingly important fuel. Propane…
News and Trends 23 Feb 2016
UK Start-Up Gets €380k to Understand Cancer with CRISPR
Desktop Genetics, a small bioinformatics start-up out of London, has won a substantial grant to understand why some cancer cells…
News and Trends 27 Jan 2016
New UK Joint Venture Bridges Gap between Top Universities and Big Pharmas
AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson and the 3 world-leading universities (Imperial College London, University College London and the University of…
News and Trends 2 Dec 2015
An Imperial College Based Start-Up Has Raised €27M in Series A for a Blood Cancer Drug
Kesios is a start-up Biotech based in London (UK) which has raised over €27M in a Series A funding round…
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News and Trends 23 Nov 2015
Making Propane From Gut-Bacteria: A UK-Finland Team Want to Say Ciao to Fracking
Five genes introduced in the bacterial genome of E.coli can modify its metabolism to synthesise propane, which can be then…
News and Trends 22 Sep 2015
Francis Crick Institute pushes to do human embryo research
The Francis Crick Institute from London has announced its application to conduct non-clinical purpose research on human embryos. The Francis…
News and Trends 16 Feb 2015
Great news for Great Britain’s synthetic biology
British government will inject the impressive amount of £40M to reinforce UK’s leading position in synthetic biology. UK Business Secretary…
