Tag: life sciences

5th October 2016 Mumbai, India

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by Vijay Iyer

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

Personalised medicine and you!

What if you were prescribed treatment based on your genetic makeup, environment and lifestyle? This is already a reality and the practice is called precision medicine or personalised medicine. Essentially, this means your genes determine the treatment you receive. The treatment is, of course, based on the results of a slew of diagnostic tests which […]

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19th February 2013 London, UK

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by David Lidington

Minister for Europe, London

Innovation Nation

Britain has a proud history of innovation. In the field of medicine and the life sciences, we’ve brought the world penicillin, unravelled the mystery of DNA, sequenced the human genome and developed MRI scanning. UK scientists have been awarded more than 70 Nobel Prizes. Most recently, in 2012, Cambridge Professor John Gurdon was recognised by […]

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8th October 2012

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by Paul Johnston

Ambassador to Ireland

Medicines and modernisation

An appropriate issue to blog about on the day a British biologist, Sir John Gurdon, wins the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Sir John’s research on nuclear transfer in frogs in 1962 shattered the dogma that cells only develop in one direction – from young cells to mature cells.  He showed that differentiated or […]

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4th January 2012 Toronto, Canada

TRRA releases Life Sciences Regional Innovation Cluster Report

The Toronto Region Research Alliance (TRRA) recently released a summary report on life sciences in the Toronto region, which is available to download here (PDF, 1.9 MB). The TRRA is an economic development organisation that aims to increase the region’s propersity by stimulating investment in research and innovation, and hence has close ties to the […]

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