An Edinburgh company has developed a process that turns whisky by-products into fish food. MiAlgae, a student start-up, uses by-products from the distilling process to grow Omega 3-rich algae for feeding farmed salmon. Founder Douglas Martin said he wanted to “revolutionise” the animal and fish feed industries with microalgae that come from whisky. He has just received a £500,000 investment in his business. Funding has...
CREATING a key European hub in Grangemouth for the chemical sciences cluster is one of four priorities outlined in a new eight-year strategic plan by Chemical Sciences Scotland Industry Leadership Group. The plan, backed by Paul Wheelhouse, Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, also details Scotland’s potential in the industrial biotechnology (IB) sector and aspires to establish Scotland as a world-class centre of high-value manufacturing as well as...
Biotech company, Ingenza, has relocated to Roslin Innovation Centre, a £30 million, multi-purpose research hub on the University of Edinburgh’s Easter Bush Campus. The centre offers 41,000 sq ft of flexible laboratory and office space, and Ingenza will occupy 11,000 sq ft on the top floor, with its own secure access to ensure security and confidentiality. The move – scheduled to take place in July...
An ambitious University of Glasgow-led research project which aims to develop new manufacturing techniques for advanced materials and devices has received more than £5m in funding support. The ‘Hetero-print’ project brings together chemists, physicists, materials scientists and engineers from the Universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield and Strathclyde. Over the next five years, they will use a £5.54m Programme Grant from the Engineering and Physical...
Miles Briggs MSP, visited The Roslin Institute to see the ground-breaking sequencing technology used by Edinburgh Genomics. The visit was planned following Briggs’ tabling of the motion “Technology boost for the University of Edinburgh Genomics Facility”, which has shown the support given by Briggs and other MSPs for genomic technology. Edinburgh Genomics recently acquired the most up-to-date gene sequencing technology, the NovaSeq 6000 system, from Illumina. This technology...
Concept Life Sciences, the integrated drug discovery, development and analytical services and environmental consultancy company, has announced the completion of its acquisition by Spectris plc , the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company. Spectris has acquired the Concept Life Sciences Group of companies from Equistone Partners and company management, for a purchase consideration of £163 million, on a debt and cash-free basis. Concept represents a new,...