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Drug discovery collaboration with MerLion

MerLion will screen its natural compound collection against high throughput screens developed by scientists at CRT in order to isolate new therapeutic compounds against validated cancer targets

News from Cancer Research UK, Sep 23, 2005

Awards for Oxford innovators and entrepreneurs

The Martin and Audrey Wood Enterprise Awards are designed to celebrate innovators and entrepreneurs and are open to companies and entrepreneurs in Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley

News from Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network, Sep 21, 2005

Investment for skin cancer technology

Spectrophotometric intracutaneous analysis assists consultant dermatologists and GPs to identify suspicious moles at the earliest possible stage without cutting through the skin

News from Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network, Sep 19, 2005

Gambica supports Achema 2006

Gambica is organising the participation of a group of British companies at the Achema 2006 exhibition, which is being held in Frankfurt from 16-19 May 2006

News from Achema, Sep 9, 2005

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Chief executive for Health and Safety Laboratory

The new chief executive of the UK's Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) will be Eddie Morland, taking over on 10 October 2005

News from Health and Safety Executive, Aug 10, 2005

Peer review revealed

Paradoxically widely accepted and widely criticised, peer review nevertheless solidly underpins the scientific enterprise, says the Science Advisory Board.

News from Science Advisory Board, Jul 20, 2005

We are all the same, but different

Study has defined the normal level of variability of gene expression in healthy people so those minor changes can be detected

News from Institute of Food Research, Jul 15, 2005

Funding boost for experimental cancer medicine

Cancer Research UK is to expand a network of Centres for Experimental Cancer Medicine with, to ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of efforts to develop new treatments for cancer

News from Cancer Research UK, Jun 30, 2005

Many Microscience stands already reserved

More than 40% of the exhibition floor space has been booked during the first week of exhibitor registration for Microscience 2006, the organiser reports

News from Royal Microscopical Society, Jun 24, 2005

How to reduce junk mail to the lab

Each researcher gets 5kg of mail every year, and more than 50,000 researchers move lab every year, so that's 250 tonnes of paper going into landfill - but this opt-in service might prove an answer

News from Ikon Informatix, May 3, 2005

HRT and endometrial cancer - a million answers

Results from the Million Women Study indicate that some forms of hormone replacement therapy increase the risk of endometrial (womb) cancer

News from Cancer Research UK, Apr 29, 2005

Scientists take stock of their ethics

A third of scientists thought employees should not own any pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology stock, while a fifth though there should be no limit, in another cheap-and-cheerful US poll

News from Science Advisory Board, Mar 31, 2005

Major efforts needed against the big four killers

Comment from Cancer Research UK in response to press release from IARC/Annals of Oncology: "New European cancer figures for 2004 - cancer experts say major efforts needed against the big four killers"

News from Cancer Research UK, Feb 18, 2005