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The Medical Research Council (MRC) and British Heart Foundation (BHF) today announced £20m of funding to boost the development of regenerative medicine therapies.

STFC's Daresbury Laboratory is hosting the original prototype magnet that was used to develop Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in hospitals, in preparation for its use in an exciting new project to study the rarest elements known to exist.

STFC's Daresbury Laboratory is hosting the original prototype magnet that was used to develop Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in hospitals, in preparation for its use in an exciting new project to study the rarest elements known to exist.

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) affects all cloven-hoofed animals, both domesticated and wild, and is one of the most contagious of animal diseases.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has recently agreed a non-exclusive Material Transfer, Patent and Know-How License Agreement with the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for the development and manufacture of a ‘next generation’ polio vaccine which could be a major step in the eradication of polio.

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) affects all cloven-hoofed animals, both domesticated and wild, and is one of the most contagious of animal diseases.

Serco, the international service company, celebrates its 25th Anniversary as a publicly traded company next year. To mark this occasion Serco is establishing the Serco Foundation, an independent...

Ahead of Serco Group plc entering its close period for the financial year ending 31 December 2012, and following the recent Interim Management Statement released on 16 November 2012, we will be...

A free interactive exhibition celebratinga century of progress led by the Medical Research Council (MRC) opens to the public today.

Spending a long time in front of a TV or computer screen may not be as detrimental to children’s mental health as previously thought, according to new results from a large UK population study.

UK Biobank announces today plans to undertake detailed DNA analysis of its 500,000 participants to better understand the complex interaction of lifestyle and genes in causing disorders.

Researchers will be able to access samples from more than 7,000 donated human brains to help study major brain diseases, thanks to a new on-line database, launched by the Medical Research Council (MRC) today.

STFC has announced a call for applications to the Projects Research and Development scheme (PRD).

STFC has announced a call for applications to the Projects Research and Development scheme (PRD).

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) can confirm that findings of an investigation into an outbreak of Cryptosporidium infection that affected around 300 people in England and Scotland in May 2012 showed strong evidence of an association with eating pre-cut bagged salad products which are likely to have been labelled as ‘ready-to-eat’. The outbreak was short lived and the numbers of cases returned to expected seasonal levels within a month of the first cases being reported. Most of those affected had a mild to moderate form of illness and there were no deaths associated with the outbreak.

The Science Minister David Willetts launched the first ever Higher Apprenticeship in Space Engineering at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) today (15 March 2013). The apprenticeship has been developed by Loughborough College in association with the National Space Academy.

The Science Minister David Willetts launched the first ever Higher Apprenticeship in Space Engineering at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) today (15 March 2013). The apprenticeship has been developed by Loughborough College in association with the National Space Academy.

A Health Protection Agency (HPA) report published today has found since 2000 the number of cases of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) has increased in England by an average of seven per cent each year. The findings of the paper suggest that further work is needed to re-assess the prevention strategies currently in place for dealing with this infection.

Latest results from CERN further reinforce that the particle discovered last year is a Higgs boson.

Latest results from CERN further reinforce that the particle discovered last year is a Higgs boson.