Nov 18, 2024 Navigating the shifting sands of biotechnology patenting By Will Arends Taken from a webinar between Suzanne Renes, Nicole Mastrangelo and David Diamond on 24 September 2024, chaired by Will Arends (Partner,...
Aug 26, 2024 Break it down now: stubborn plastics broken down by microbes By Kate Appleby Plastic pollution continues to threaten ecosystems worldwide and effective solutions to break down stubborn plastics are needed. In the...
Aug 15, 2024 Combatting antimicrobial resistance By Gareth Williams Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is one of the major current health concerns. Resistant strains which have emerged recently include...
Jul 24, 2024 Taking Charge of Our Health: Medical Wearables By Kameel Kaur Bassi Medical wearables have come a long way from the traditional fitness trackers and heart rate monitors that first flooded the market. From...
Jul 09, 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...
Jul 01, 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...
Jun 28, 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...
Jun 13, 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...
May 31, 2024 Agnes Arber - the first Royal Society female botanist recognised by a new PhD prize By Andrea Williams Cambridge University have created a new PhD prize in comparative biology in memory of the first female botanist to be elected to The...
May 24, 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...
May 24, 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...
May 17, 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...