Stem cell firm ReNeuron sets up in Wales after £13m government investment
UK biotech company ReNeuron is to relocate to Wales after securing £7.8m in grants and £5m equity investment from the Welsh government...
The industrial application of biological processes and living organisms to make products for human use, especially in medicine, agriculture and food science.
UK biotech company ReNeuron is to relocate to Wales after securing £7.8m in grants and £5m equity investment from the Welsh government...
A drug has been found to suppress the gene underlying a rare but fatal disease, according to results from an early-stage clinical trial...
by Dr Michael Hopkins and 1 others
Last week saw the conclusion of the long-running gene patent lawsuit known as AMP v. Myriad Genetics. At stake was the patentability of isolated DNA sequences...
The UK's High Court has asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to clarify if human parthenotes fall under the definition of a human embryo for the purposes of patentability...
Eleven scientists have each won £2 million as part of a prize to recognise the achievements of biomedical researchers, launched by entrepreneurs including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sergey Brin...
A patent over a gene linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancers is valid, an Australian federal court has ruled in a landmark case....
For the first time human embryonic stem cells have been used in a 3D printing process and retained the properties that make them unique...
by Daryl Ramai
Digital information can be reliably stored in DNA, say scientists...
US biotech company Verinata Health has reported sequencing fetal DNA taken from pregnant women's blood to test for genetic abnormalities...
How valuable are emerging biotechnologies? Of all the questions about the prospects of the life sciences, this is the one that UK policy makers seem most eager to answer...
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