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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 silk. Luca Alessandrini was awarded the £10,000 prize for the design of a biomaterial-based violin that can be engineered to customize the final sound. With the new funds and a patent filed, the designer is now looking for co-founders to […]

November 12, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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 in its dormant state by activating latent infected cells and could possibly become the first HIV cure available. These initial results show that the new therapy, developed in the UK, may be effective in curing HIV. One of 50 […]

October 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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 is an emerging fuel, used from heating to transport fuel. Therefore, producing it via synthetic biology has been a major target in the biofuel field to be Greener. This is especially because biobased propane it’s a […]

May 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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 just won’t quit. To do this, it relies on CRISPR, their expertise with genetic data, and research from Imperial College London. Desktop Genetics has already proven that it can move some money, with a €1.87 […]

February 23, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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 Cambridge) have joined forces to found the ‘Apollo’ Bridge. This pioneering new joint venture, the Apollo Therapeutics Fund, will support the translation of ground-breaking academic science from within these universities into innovative new medicines for […]

January 27, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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 for its pipeline targeting the fight against multiple myeloma. A syndicate of UK investors has jumped at the chance to fund this cancer-fighting biotech, whose nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB)signal pathway targeting pipeline has promise […]

December 2, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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 converted to liquified petroleum gas (LPG) as an alternative source of fuel. Escherichia coli is a facultative anaerobe of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine. An international team of researchers […]

November 23, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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 Crick Institute is a cutting-edge collaboration of the UK’s leading medical research organisations: the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, various London academic institutions and the Wellcome Trust. Currently still under construction, it is based in […]

September 22, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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 Vince Cable has announced a £40M investment in UK synthetic biology at the Manchester Institute for Biotechnology. The majority of this investment, £32M, will be used to establish three new Synthetic Biology Research Centres at […]

February 16, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Lourdes Riquelme

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The sound of this Spider Silk Violin surprises Expert Musicians

One Step Closer to an HIV Cure That Can Eliminate the Latent Virus

How the UK is Engineering Bacteria to produce Propane for Greener Fuels

UK Start-Up Gets €380k to Understand Cancer with CRISPR

New UK Joint Venture Bridges Gap between Top Universities and Big Pharmas

An Imperial College Based Start-Up Has Raised €27M in Series A for a Blood Cancer Drug

Making Propane From Gut-Bacteria: A UK-Finland Team Want to Say Ciao to Fracking

Francis Crick Institute pushes to do human embryo research

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