by admin | Jan 5, 2017 | News
A number of investors from the UK have teamed up to create a £1bn cancer-focused fund. Benchmark Services – Lab Relocations The arrangement will see Wellcome Trusts investment spin out Syncona combine assets with the Battle Against Cancer Investment Fund...
by admin | Dec 6, 2016 | News
A new school for graduate environmental research and training has opened at Lancaster University. The Lancaster Graduate School for the Environment has been formed, with the Lancaster Environment Centre, Rothamsted Research and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology...
by admin | Nov 16, 2016 | News
Scientists have transformed the humble spinach plant into a bomb detector. By embedding small tubes in the plants’ leaves, they can be made to pick up chemicals called nitro-aromatics, which are found in buried munitions such as landmines. Real-time information can...
by admin | Nov 1, 2016 | News
Astronomers from the Havard-Smithsonian Centre have found our neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri, has a lot more in common with our Sun than previously thought. A small red dwarf, it is orbited by a planet that is similar in size to Earth – Proxima b. It is...
by admin | Oct 6, 2016 | News
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Sir J.Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Bernard L. Feringa for their design and production of molecular machines. Benchmark Services – Laboratory Removals The work of Stoddart (Northwestern University...
