Hybrid materials could smash the solar efficiency ceiling
A new method for transferring energy from organic to inorganic semiconductors could boost the efficiency of widely used inorganic solar cells.
Price gap between more and less healthy foods grows
Novel use of UK national data finds a growing gap between the prices of more and less healthy foods between 2002 and 2012. Healthy foods in 2012 were three times more expensive per calorie than less healthy foods.
ZEISS participates in the US BRAIN initiative
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its first research grants through President Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative.
Workshop aims to develop a roadmap for training clinicians in bioinformatics
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) recently hosted a ‘Bioinformatics for Clinicians’ workshop to create a science roadmap for the development of bioinformatics training for a clinical audience.
Finance: How will the new EU accounting directive affect your company?
The new EU simplified accounting regime will soon become part of UK law, but what will this mean for British SMEs? Santander's Breakthrough Business Editor Trevor Clawson summarises what you need to know.
Large UK/USA study provides evidence that Group Nature Walks enhance mental wellbeing
These are common suggestions to remedy the effects of stress: You just need a breath of fresh air. Walk it off. Get out and see people. It turns out that all those things combined may in fact make you feel better - a lot better - a new large scale study suggests[1].
United Life Sciences to advance UK bioscience and publish UK Life Sciences Manifesto
Four leading life science membership organisations, the BioIndustry Association (BIA), Bionow, BioPartner and One Nucleus (ON) announce the formation of United Life Sciences, a strategic partnership representing over 1000 life science and healthcare members across the UK and internationally. The aim of the partnership is to work together on a range of matters that directly benefit members and the…
Dolomite and Lab on a Chip launch Productizing Science® Competition 2015
Dolomite, a pioneering microfluidics specialist, and Lab on a Chip are challenging entrepreneurial researchers, scientists and engineers to enter the Productizing Science Competition 2015, proposing novel, microfluidics-based concepts with commercial potential.
Join CambridgePPF for guided walk, AGM and architectural talk
Join Cambridge Past Present & Future (CambridgePPF) next Wednesday (15th October) for an informative evening at Michaelhouse Café on Trinity Street in Cambridge. This year, the charity’s AGM will begin at 5:30pm with a guided walk around the city centre kindly led by Conservation Officers from Cambridge City Council.
ECM Cambridge student prize 2014 is awarded
Cambridge-based ECM, the UK's high-tech recruitment experts in placing finding top jobs for high-flying, high-tech candidates, congratulates Ian Orton on winning the ECM Cambridge Student Prize 2014 for the most outstanding Computer Science student in Part II (the third year) of the course. Ian is a student at Churchill College.
Five golden rules for performance reviews
It's that time of year again when managers and their staff are preparing for performance reviews and appraisals. If done well, it's a tremendous opportunity to build engagement, generate fresh energy, and position the organisation for growth and innovation, writes RiverRhee Consulting in its latest Newsletter (Sept-Oct 2014).
Birketts completes £250K seed investment on behalf of Cumulus Energy Storage Limited
Birketts, the corporate and commercial regional law firm of the year (The Legal 500 UK Awards 2014), has advised Cumulus Energy Storage Limited (CES) on its first round of seed investors.
Disrupting the status quo in biotech - BioBeat14 encourages new thinking in the sector
Biotechology has shaken up the business environment, creating new ways of thinking and a model for open innovation that is being adopted by other industries, according to Miranda Weston-Smith, speaking ahead of BioBeat14 at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, on 23rd October 2014.
Back to school for Mobas on BIMA’s D-Day
A team from creative agency Mobas headed to Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge yesterday (Weds) as part of D-Day, a UK-wide initiative to encourage young people to consider careers in digital marketing.
Adapt and survive: how conservation and animal psychology can work together
Researchers are calling for animal cognition experts and conservationists to come together to help animals adapt their behaviour to changing environmental issues and aid their own preservation.
Lumie applauds Nobel recognition for inventor of blue LEDs
Lumie CEO Jonathan Cridland says that The Nobel Prize awarded to Professors Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura for their ground-breaking work regarding blue LEDs is well deserved.
Are you an SME? Stone King wants to know more about your legal issues
With research from the Legal Services Board showing that legal services fail to meet the needs of small businesses, and over 50% of owners opting to handle legal problems themselves, the Cambridge branch of leading national law firm, Stone King, will launch its new legal package specifically for the SME community at the end of October.
Internet of Cons?
Take a lot of unrelated and minimally related things such as passive RFID, ZigBee, Wireless Sensor Networks and hobbyist micro-controllers and give them a grand new name such as the Internet of Things. Instantly you can claim it is a substantial market already and set to be much bigger in future if only because you will shovel other things into the definition.
Legal bible ranks Stone King’s Cambridge lawyers in top tier
Stone King’s lawyers in Cambridge have been named among the region’s top legal eagles in an influential industry guide.
Strem and Provivi sign enzyme distribution agreement
An agreement has been signed which grants Strem Chemicals distribution rights for research quantities of Provivi’s carbene/nitrene transferase enzymes that will feature in the new C/N Transferase Screening Kit.
Positive results from Phase IIb benralizumab study in severe asthma published
AstraZeneca today announced that The Lancet Respiratory Medicine has published positive safety and efficacy data from a Phase IIb study evaluating benralizumab, a novel investigational monoclonal antibody, in patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma and elevated levels of eosinophils, a type of inflammatory white blood cell.
Birketts’ corporate and commercial team announced as winners at The Legal 500 UK Awards 2014
Leading East of England law firm, Birketts, has been named as the corporate and commercial regional firm of the year at The Legal 500 UK Awards.
Airport team flying east to tempt cargo airlines
Stansted Airport’s ambition to secure more scheduled freighter services is top of the agenda as its cargo development team heads to South Korea this week to hold top level talks with potential new airlines.
Honoraries join in with Cambridge celebrations
Six inspirational Honorary Award holders will join the celebrations as thousands of Anglia Ruskin University students attend graduation ceremonies in Cambridge next week.
Howard Group appoints new finance director
New senior appointment strengthens the Howard team.