29 Feb, 2024 Ban on NGT plant patents - bad idea right? By Gareth Williams Following on from my colleague Georgia's earlier article on the European Parliament's proposals to ban patents for plants obtained by New...
23 Jan, 2024 My hovercraft is full of eels By Gareth Williams As a resident of the Island of Eels in the East Anglian Fens, barely a day goes by without seeing some reminder of the former importance...
09 Jan, 2024 The Sticky Side of Diversification By Claire Keating The German adhesives manufacturer, DELO Industrial Adhesives, has announced plans to expand into the MedTech field. The company is one of...
08 Dec, 2023 Self-amplifying RNA vaccines By Gareth Williams Nature reports on the first regulatory approval in Japan of a self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) vaccine. The ARCT-154 vaccine includes mRNA...
08 Dec, 2023 50 Technologies to shape the future By Gareth Williams An absolutely fascinating read, this report from Innovate UK sets out technologies which might be expected to disrupt, innovate, and...
30 Nov, 2023 The Scotsman Life Sciences Conference 2023 - a focus on sustainability By Jiwon Park I had the pleasure of attending The Scotsman Annual Life Sciences Conference this week with my colleague Mairi Rudkin. In line with the...
23 Nov, 2023 The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) awarded almost £42 million of government funding By Annabel Williams The NIHR has just recently been awarded almost £42 million of government funding to set up 14 new NIHR HealthTech Research Centres (HRCs)...
22 Nov, 2023 Engineered bacteria could recycle critical minerals from EV batteries By Ali Raja The minerals in EV batteries - primarily lithium, cobalt and nickel - are worth on average between 1,000 euros (£870) to 2,000 euros per...
09 Nov, 2023 A half-synthetic organism By Gareth Williams When I was working toward my PhD - way back in the 20th century - I made a lot of use of Yeast Artificial Chromosomes (YACs). These were...
26 Oct, 2023 Eastern Agri-Food Innovation Launchpad open for funding applications By Gareth Williams Food security and the environmental impact of agriculture are very hot topics at the moment, and companies and research institutes from...
06 Oct, 2023 It's the Circle of Life By Gareth Williams Could circular RNA be the Next Big Thing for RNA therapeutics? The molecules are much more persistent than linear RNA (such as the mRNA...
02 Oct, 2023 "Octo-patch"? "Cephalo-pill"? By Gareth Williams I'm always a sucker for a cephalopod-linked story, so naturally I clicked on this one. Researchers have taken inspiration from the arms...