Healthcare and Life Science
Celebrating our Centres - Exeter
This week we hear from our colleagues in the southwest about post-pandemic recruitment milestones, engaging with local community at agricultural shows, their Cystic Fibrosis and Monogenic Beta Cell Diabetes team, and collaborative work to increase the diversity of public involvement gro...
Celebrating our Centres - Southampton
Our series continues this week with an update from our colleagues in Wessex. The team share some exciting updates including increased BRC funding to expand research themes, their approach to working with researchers and clinicians across the region, and public involvement initiatives co...
Cambridge-based electronRx to attend CES® 2024 in Las Vegas
Cambridge-based health tech innovator electronRx is attending the Consumer Technology Association event, CES® in Las Vegas in January 2024 The company will showcase its innovative technology that will revolutionise patient long-term and chronic condition management and understanding ...
Optibrium introduces cloud-based version of StarDrop drug discovery platform
Cloud-based version of StarDrop retains all the functionality and interactivity of desktop version with improved accessibility and lower total cost of ownership for customers. Optibrium recently received ISO 27001 accreditation for its information security system. ...
Delivering excellence for our clients – Team Consulting appoints new CEO
Iain Ansell has recently taken on the role of CEO at Team Consulting. With a proven track record leading Team’s medical device development activities as Consulting Director, Iain is looking forward to continuing to drive new growth and ensure we remain the best-in-class provider for our...
Wearable therapeutics that are changing the face of healthcare
Wearable technology has many advantages in healthcare. In diagnostics, wearables can provide always-on data collection, enabling faster and more accurate clinical decision making. Meanwhile, wearable therapeutics can provide a unique way...
Broken String Biosciences’ INDUCE-seq platform demonstrates impact of structural DNA changes on specificity of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing
Research published in Molecular Cell used INDUCE-seq to identify DNA topology as an important regulator of CRISPR targeting specificity Peer-reviewed data demonstrates the sensitivity of INDUCE-seq DNA break mapping platform, in identifying topology-related off-target events across t...
Semarion announces Early Adopter Programme for SemaCyte Microcarrier Platform
SemaCyte Microcarrier Platform addresses limitations within adherent cell assays to accelerate the pace of in vitro drug discovery Early access will further validate the technology and provide feedback on applicability across customer workflows Cambridge, UK, 18 October 2023: Sema...
National Lottery funding enables leap forward in strategy for children’s brain tumour charity, Tom’s Trust
The National Lottery Community Fund has granted children’s brain tumour charity Tom’s Trust more than £400,000, enabling a big leap forward in its strategy to support more families. ...
Neurodiversity, burnout, and poorer dietary choices: a closer look on employee health
Workplaces play an important role in influencing the health of staff. We spend lots of hours at work. According to the TUC analysis, workers in the UK are putting in the longest hours in the EU. ...