29 September 2026
Workers at the prestigious Institute of Cancer Research in London, ranging from logistics and store staff to researchers and scientists have won their 66-day fight for better pay and conditions after their first ever strikes.
Hundreds of Unite members at a number of biomedical establishments have been on strike after derisory pay offers.
29 November 2022
The joined-up thinking in Britain’s immediate response to the need for a Covid-19 vaccine in 2020 is now absent – despite its success protecting Brtain's population.
The Scottish government intends to block the deployment of gene-edited crops even if the proposed new legislation on gene editing applies to the whole of the UK.
18 May 2022
The Queen’s Speech signalled progress on Brexit-won freedoms to boost the use of new gene editing techniques in agriculture. But it’s taking precious years to get anything done.
10 January 2021
Taking advantage of Brexit, the government has launched a consultation on whether to change the law on genetically modified organisms to allow companies and researchers to use gene editing more freely.
12 March 2019
Researchers from Italy took their campaign for scientific freedom to Brussels last week – by eating rice pudding in front of the European Parliament…
There is one country where there is no “Valley of Death” where lack of investment chokes off new biotech products – Cuba.
Forty years ago researchers created a synthetic form of insulin, the hormone that controls levels of sugar in the blood. Some greens weren’t happy.
Genome editing involves the deliberate modification of a specific sequence of DNA in a living cell.
Biotechnology will be at the heart of the future of medicine and agriculture, as well as several other industries. But will it be at the centre of British industry?
