The winners of Scottish EDGE Round 14 have been announced with designer sustainable wooden bag manufacturer, Roccio, taking the inaugural Circular Economy EDGE Award. Top Higgs EDGE Award of £125,000 given to crop production refiner, Myconourish Glasgow teenager who founded his business while battling cancer takes five-figure award in Young EDGE category Sixth year pupil takes five figure sum in Wild Card EDGE for life-saving bagpipe...
The James Hutton Institute’s commercial subsidiary, James Hutton Limited, has entered into a five-year agreement with Technico Agri Sciences, a subsidiary of Indian company ITC Limited, for the provision of 16 potato varieties and 600 clones to be trialled and tested in India. It is hoped that the introduction of new potato varieties will benefit India’s potato growers and industry by addressing the demand of processors and exporters...
A new way to diagnose, treat and protect against stealth fungal infections that claim more than 1.5 million lives per year worldwide has been moved a step closer, according to research published in Nature Communications. Despite public health efforts, many people who get fungal infections in their blood streams die, even if they can be identified and treated with antifungal drugs. These therapies are often...
Platinum Informatics, a spin-out company from the University of Dundee, was one of the big winners at the Scottish EDGE Awards last night (December 6), receiving £100,000. Platinum Informatics provides state of the art software solutions for the management, visualisation and analysis of large and complex data sets in a wide range of laboratory and industrial environments. The company is commercialising software developed for more...
The invention of the first full-body MRI scanner from the University of Aberdeen has been named as one of the UK’s 100 best breakthroughs for its significance on people’s everyday lives. Professor James Hutchison and his team built the ‘Mark 1’ machine, which successfully scanned its first patient on August 28 1980. Professor Hutchison also helped to patent a ‘game-changing’ technique, known as spin-warp imaging,...
Scotland’s Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, will begin a week-long visit to India on Friday to strengthen bilateral ties with a focus on trade and investment and to boost cooperation in technology and life sciences, the UK Foreign Office said Thursday. Swinney, the deputy head of the devolved Scottish government, will be joined by a delegation of senior leaders from Scotland’s higher education sector during...