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- Glasgow spin-out technology to reach wider market
- Reactivlab, a University of Glasgow spin-out company which specialises in animal health diagnostic technology using Acute Phase Proteins, has been taken over by the Avacta Group.
- 8 March 2010
- Professors appointed to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Several professors from the University of Glasgow have been honoured in this year's Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship Presentations.
- 8 March 2010
- ClinTec International and HCG celebrate a successful partnership in delivering Global Patient Recruitment Services at European Drug Conference, DIA
- Dr Rabinder Buttar, President and CEO of ClinTec International and Frank S. Kilpatrick, President of Healthcare Communications Group (HCG), El Segundo, C A will celebrate their companies' successful collaboration at the upcoming 22nd Annual Drug Information Association (DIA) EuroMeeting in Monaco on 8-10 March 2010.
- 5 March 2010
- Science Graduates for Work
- An innovative new programme that will help talented science graduates gain a foothold in Scotland's multi-billion pound life sciences industry was launched by Keith Brown, Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning today.
- 5 March 2010
- US Life Sciences firm creates new company in Dundee
- Stemgent, Inc, an American biotechnology company, has announced the formation of a new company based in Dundee - Ubiquigent Ltd. As part of the agreement, Stemgent will invest approximately £3 million ($4.7 million) in the new venture over the next three years.
- 4 March 2010
- Hormone study gives scientists a sense of how animals bond
- Scientists have pinpointed how a key hormone helps animals to recognise others by their smell.
- 25 February 2010
- Ingenza 'Innovates with an Apprentice'
- On 16 November 2009, Ingenza Ltd - based at the Roslin BioCentre - appointed two Modern Apprentices.
- 22 February 2010
- Low-cost DNA test to pinpoint risk of inherited diseases
- An inexpensive, fast, accurate DNA test that reveals a person's risk of developing certain diseases is expected to become a reality, thanks to technology developed at the University of Edinburgh.
- 22 February 2010
- Glasgow scientist in national push to tackle animal diseases and poverty
- £13million of new research has been launched today to tackle the significant and growing threat, posed by livestock diseases, on global food security and livelihoods in developing countries.
- 22 February 2010
- Glasgow expert finds statins increase risk of diabetes
- Statins increase the risk of diabetes, but the absolute risk is low - especially when compared with a reduction in coronary events, a Glasgow academic has found.
- 19 February 2010
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