Sandwich, Kent, UK, 17th January 2023 / Sciad Newswire / Discovery Park Ventures (DPV) announces an investment of £100K into Vox Imaging Technology Ltd. (VIT), an ambitious ophthalmic technology company looking to transform eye imaging in preclinical research and improve drug discovery and development. Its compact and customisable instrument is believed to be the first…

Sandwich, UK, 6th December 2023 / Sciad Newswire / Discovery Park / BugBiome was announced as the winner of the Discovery Spark life science business support programme at the GIANT Health Healthcare Investment Show on 5th December. BugBiome will be awarded a business support package worth over £100,000, including one year of free lab space at Discovery…

Sandwich, Kent, UK, 4th December 2023 / Sciad Newswire / Discovery Park Ventures (DPV) announces the expansion of its early-stage life science fund from £1m to £3m, in order to capitalise on exciting investment opportunities and support its existing portfolio. The fund’s investors have committed an additional £2m, which will also enable the fund to…

Findings highlight how climate change disrupts coral-algae symbiosis. Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 13th November 2023 / Sciad Newswire / A new study by KAUST researchers shows that corals, jellyfish and other symbiotic cnidarians control their symbiotic algae by limiting the amount of nitrogen available for proliferation. The findings disrupt traditional views of cooperative symbiosis in corals*…

Falmouth, UK, 9th November 2023 / Sciad Newswire / Cornish Metals Inc. is using eight Bredel 40 hose pumps and three Qdos chemical metering and dosing pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS) in its newly opened water treatment plant (WTP) at South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall, England.   South Crofty ceased producing tin in…

Laverock Therapeutics secures £1m funding via the Innovate UK Investor Partnerships Future Economy programme, supported by UKI2S.  London, UK, 30th October 2023 / Sciad Newswire / Laverock Therapeutics, developer of a unique gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable advanced therapies, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded £1m in funding, made up…

Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 27th October 2023 / Sciad Newswire / King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and two Chinese companies operating in the plastics sector: Shandong Lianxin Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. and Hangzhou Hecai Technology Co., Ltd have agreed to develop environmentally friendly “green plastics” of high molar mass called aliphatic polycarbonates…

Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 23 October 2023 / Sciad Newswire / A multinational study seen in Scientific Data and led by KAUST reports that the global climate has experienced notable changes in climate classification over the past century, and these shifts are projected to intensify in the coming decades. With an updated version of the 1-km Kӧppen-Geiger climate classification maps…

Sandwich, Kent, United Kingdom, 17th October 2023 / Sciad Newswire / Discovery Park, Kent’s thriving life science community, has partnered with scientific content discovery and discussion platform, Researcher, to promote collaboration and facilitate scientific progress.  Building strong networks of like-minded organisations is vital to support the growing life science industry and facilitate the sharing of…

Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 10th October 2023 / Sciad Newswire / King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) biotech spinout WAYAKIT’s safe, QAC-free disinfectant is being used on thousands of aircraft through new Saudi Ground Services (SGS) cleaning partnership. There is increasing concern over health and environmental impacts of quaternary ammonium-based (QACs) cleaning products, including:…