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What impact can human resources (HR) have on your business?
Many people view human resources (HR) as a purely administrative role involving arranging interviews, creating offer letters and termination letters, tracking absence and holidays and issuing numerous policies, procedures and forms. While the clerical function is important, HR is so much more than that.
Survival tips for small business owners
The coronavirus crisis is taking no prisoners as it decimates large swathes of the economy.
Case study -Consulting firm helps improve the performance of international distributors
Spline Gauges, a world leader in its engineering niche, approached Chris Dunn Consulting to objectively assess relative distributor performance to maximize future international business opportunities.
A novel way to entertain your kids - the #LOCKJAM half term school disco
Children at a loose end this afternoon? Join the #LOCKJAM half term school disco - your kids have great (virtual) fun and you help raise money for freelance musicians and sound crews out of work due to Covid-19.
Evolution Metals hardens defences with Darktrace email security
Darktrace, the world’s leading Cyber AI company, announced that Evolution Metals Corp. (EMC), an environmentally-responsible mining and refining company, has selected Darktrace to protect its critical minerals supply chain from email attacks.
BroadbandUK updates its Broadband Speed Test
BroadbandUK's updated Broadband Speed Test records very high value speed tests.
Open Source, tailored for you
Collabora offers a comprehensive range of services to help you in every step of your Open Source projects. From design and implementation, to QA and maintenance, we can support you from start to finish and beyond.
Metrion Biosciences and International Scientific Consortium publish data and new recommendations for in vitro risk assessment of the cardiac safety of new medicines
Metrion Biosciences Limited, the specialist ion channel CRO and drug discovery company, announced on 7th April 2020, it has contributed to two new peer-reviewed papers under the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) CiPA (Comprehensive in vitro Proarrhythmia Assay) initiative.
Translational Assays
Validating compounds in translational assays is vital to progressing your drug discovery. Metrion offers a range of translational, phenotypic neuronal assays and platforms. These assays often need to be specifically designed for your translational neuroscience needs.
Neuroscience Screening
Metrion can screen against specific neuronal ion channel or use its range of translational, phenotypic disease-relevant assays.
Cardiac Safety Screening
Metrion provides a fully integrated Cardiac Safety Screening / CiPA Screening service incorporating all three components of the Comprehensive In vitro Proarrhythmia (CiPA) initiative.
Ion Channel screening services
Metrion offers high quality ion channel screening services using a variety of electrophysiology, label free and fluorescence-based platforms.
Professor Andrew Fabian awarded Kavli Prize
Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has been awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, one of the world's most prestigious science prizes.
School segregation by wealth is creating unequal learning outcomes for children in the Global South
Millions of the world’s poorest children are leaving school without mastering even basic levels of reading or maths because of an overlooked pattern of widespread, wealth-based inequalities in their countries’ education systems, new research suggests.
Charity aspects of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill was published and had its first reading in Parliament on 20 May 2020. Saffa Mir of Hewitsons talks about the implications for charities.
Artisan food market site scoops £5k in Big Pitch
A social enterprise which brings together artisan and small food producers from around the UK into a central website has won Anglia Ruskin University’s Big Pitch 2020 competition.
Customising medical devices
Team Consulting's Cara Cooper takes a look at the medical devices that aren't designed to blend in...
Flagship sustainable public transport schemes take next steps
Two major infrastructure schemes that will transform sustainable travel for thousands of people across the region will be considered by the Greater Cambridge Partnership’s (GCP) Executive Board next month.
Foreign Direct Investment in East of England grows 11% in 2019, EY reveals
The East of England recorded a 11% increase in FDI projects in 2019, from 36 to 40 in the last 12 months, according to the EY 2020 UK Attractiveness Survey which launched today.
GCP reveals plans to make cycling and walking easier during pandemic
The Greater Cambridge Partnership has revealed how it will support efforts to make it safer for people to cycle and walk around Greater Cambridge during the Covid-19 pandemic.
CfBI's Cambridge Innovation Summit moves online
The Cambridge Innovation Summit 2020, organised by the city-based Centre for Business Innovation (CfBI), goes online this year, with the headline theme of Artificial Intelligence.
Hewitsons promotes high flyers
Law firm Hewitsons has promoted three high-flying lawyers from its private wealth team, based in Cambridge.
CJBS Perspectives: Leadership in unprecedented times
A new video series produced by Cambridge Judge Business School begins with a lesson for leaders of organisations facing big challenges such as the Covid-19 crisis.
Antibody designed to recognise pathogens of Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers have found a way to design an antibody that can identify the toxic particles that destroy healthy brain cells – a potential advance in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease.
Healthcare rationing could see unlawful deaths from COVID-19, researchers claim
Current medical guidelines risk unlawful deaths of patients – with doctors, hospitals, and even the government potentially liable – if a second peak forces hard choices due to shortages of ventilators and other critical care resources.