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Solid Form Solutions increases staff
Solid Form Solutions announces four new staff have joined the company.
30 July 2010
Encap Drug Delivery receives patent approval for DuoCapTM capsule system
Encap Drug Delivery granted patents for DuoCapTM, capsule delivery system.
30 July 2010
Touch Bionics wins at the International Business Awards
Touch Bionics, developer of advanced upper-limb bionic technologies and clinical solutions, today announced that it has won the award for the Most Innovative Company of the Year in Europe in the 2010 International Business Awards.
29 July 2010
Author: Lifes Sciences Scotland
Can animals foretell the environmental impact of climate change?
A Glasgow researcher has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh fellowship to examine new environmental monitoring methods.
29 July 2010
Author: Lifes Sciences Scotland
Highland Directors shortlisted for UK Institute of Directors Awards
Three directors based in the Highlands have been shortlisted for the final of the Institute of Directors (IOD) UK Awards which take place in London in October.
29 July 2010
UK comes top in global 'quality of death' report
The UK has come top in a report ranking the quality of end-of-life care provision around the world that draws heavily from the research of a Glasgow professor.
29 July 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
Breakthrough Breast Cancer identifies potential new treatment
Scientists from the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh have discovered a potential new way to treat a common form of breast cancer which affects 800 Scottish women and 9,000 UK women each year.
29 July 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
Global breakthrough in treatment of dementia is within reach
A Glasgow-based medical research company is leading a worldwide sleep study which could radically reduce the symptoms associated with dementia.
29 July 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
Bid to aid transplant cancer patients
Organ transplant patients who develop cancer may be helped by a treatment that uses blood cells to attack their tumour.
29 July 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland
Millipore Corporation and BioOutsource Ltd to collaborate
Millipore Corporation, a leading provider of technologies, tools and services for the global life science industry, have formed a strategic alliance with BioOutsource Ltd.
29 July 2010
Author: Life Sciences Scotland

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