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18 Jul, 2024 Concussion biomarkers linked to MND By Tom Grendon If you have been following the news recently, you may well have seen that Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has been in the headlines more and...
09 Jul, 2024 Celebrating a vaccine success By Paul Chapman Vaccines are not new. Edward Jenner, although not the inventor of vaccination, certainly pioneered vaccination and developed the first...
01 Jul, 2024 Jumping Genes! By Gareth Williams This is a potentially exciting new development in the world of genome engineering. Researchers have used bacterial transposons - mobile...
28 Jun, 2024 Fungi not so fun guys any more By Gareth Williams If you've seen or played The Last of Us, the post-apocalyptic survival horror game/show, you'll be familiar with the idea that fungal...
13 Jun, 2024 Longitude Prize on AMR (antimicrobial resistance) - and the winner is... By Paul Chapman In 1714, the Longitude Act was passed, seeking to find a useful method to determine longitude to an accuracy of half a degree. The prize...
24 May, 2024 WIPO agree new treaty on genetic resources and traditional knowledge By Gareth Williams As reported in their press release, WIPO member states have agreed a new Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and...
24 May, 2024 EU ban on plant patents: possible compromise? By Gareth Williams Euractiv are reporting a possible compromise on the EU Parliament's controversial proposals to ban patents on plants. It seems one...
17 May, 2024 Exceptional researchers elected to Royal Society Fellowship By Andrea Williams The Royal Society has announced the names of over 90 exceptional researchers to be elected as Fellows; and I am so pleased to see some of...
09 May, 2024 Biocomposite Breakthrough: Self-digesting spore-filled polymers By Mairi Rudkin This article caught my eye this morning - researchers based at the University of California San Diego have developed a new class of...
22 Apr, 2024 Out of This World Science: Printing Labs for Microgravity By Stephen Hunt Stereolithography, also known as resin 3D printing, is an additive manufacturing technique where a laser beam is used to cure liquid...
19 Apr, 2024 M&C in the news: Pond Power: Algae’s role in ending fossil fuels By M&C Newsroom Ahead of Earth Day and World IP Day next week, which is focused on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are delighted to see the...