11+ min ago  (485+ words) Aston University is leading a €1.2m international research project to investigate whether naturally magnetic bacteria can be harnessed to deliver targeted cancer therapies. Funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Staff Exchanges programme, the MagBIO project brings together 18 partner organisations from…...

19+ min ago  (451+ words) University of Bath spin-out Revolver Therapeutics has secured £572k to advance a drug discovery platform designed to target transcription factors, proteins long regarded as among the most difficult targets in cancer research. The investment round was led by QantX, with follow-on…...

1+ hour ago  (951+ words) Engineers who design protective materials usually chase a short list of traits. They want strength, stiffness, and something that lasts. Sensing the outside world rarely makes that list. A team studying sea stars has now found a reason to add…...

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48+ min ago  (351+ words) Japanese scientists have discovered a naturally-occurring bacteria in a frog species with remarkably-potent anticancer activity—in fact, it destroyed cancer tumors in one dose. Led by Professor Eijiro Miyako, the team at Japan’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology discovered…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago  (188+ words) Wafaa M Rashed, Chair and founder of Pan-African PGS Education and Research Initiative (PAPERI), shared on LinkedIn: “Now Available on YouTube! Did you miss our live PAPERI Webinar with Hugues Abriel? Or would you like to revisit the discussion? The…...

1+ hour, 34+ min ago  (300+ words) PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ New Tehri At a time when deforestation and environmental pollution are assuming alarming proportions everywhere, Uniyalgaon, tucked away into Saklana Patti of Tehri district, has set an example of creating biodiversity-rich forest through community participation. The…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (265+ words) The calm many people feel in a forest is not just a romantic story about trees. A small but serious body of research has measured changes in...

2+ hour ago  (675+ words) Graduate student Emily Hudgins, pursuing a master's degree in biology, was in the lab one day when she received news that she had won an award for a project she had worked on for over a year that would allow…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (576+ words) We’ve all heard it, the story of the metamorphosis. The story believed by those not yet educated in the ways of wildlife. I first heard it many years ago laughing over a beer in Lonigan’s. Scott, the bartender, told me,…...