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High-value chemicals from biotech: School scientists awarded almost half a million pounds in UK Government funding

04 November, 2020

Pioneering researchers in the School of Biological Sciences will benefit from a £477,015 cash boost…

‘Social distancing’ in sheep could cure flock of maedi-visna

15 October, 2020

A collaboration between scientists in Scotland and The Netherlands has found that a lack of ‘social…

School success in the Principal’s Innovation Awards

28 September, 2020

Two research projects in the School of Biological Sciences have been named as the first winners of…

New biotech start up for cancer treatment launches

15 September, 2020

The pioneering work carried out by the UK Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology has led to the…

Caffeine shot delivers wakeup call on antifungal drug resistance

10 September, 2020

The management of fungal infections in plants and humans could be transformed by a breakthrough in…

Super-resolution imaging breakthrough in living cells

21 August, 2020

Edinburgh scientists have developed a new imaging technique that reveals the inner workings of…

Sustainable nylon production made possible by bacteria discovery

13 August, 2020

Nylon manufacture could be revolutionised by the discovery that bacteria can make a key chemical…

Food security boost as data gets to root of crop yields problem

29 July, 2020

The resilience and yields of food crops worldwide could be improved by a new technique that…

Sperm discovery reveals clue to genetic ‘immortality’

16 July, 2020

New insights into an elusive process that protects developing sperm cells from damage in growing…

EMBO membership awarded to Dónal O'Carroll

07 July, 2020

Professor Dónal O'Carroll has been awarded the lifetime honour of EMBO (European Molecular…