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Despite advances in research, around 90% of drugs fail during phase 1 clinical trials. New drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular disease and oncology have a particularly high failure rate, largely attributed to cardiotoxicity...

Are you looking for an idea to start a multimillion-pound business? Proteins that stimulate cell growth currently cost several million pounds per gram, which makes them more expensive than diamonds. You need particularly lots of them if you want to grow enough cells to assemble a steak. This so-called ‘cultivated’ or ‘lab-grown’ meat was initially proposed as food for astronauts but has since turned from a science fiction fantasy to a source of hope for a more sustainable and animal welfare-conscious food for the world.

In conjunction with the LifETIME CDT program, Qkine has sponsored a PhD studentship based at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Martha Gallagher started her PhD in Professor Eric Hill’s lab to develop a 3D biomaterial scaffold that will display multiple neurodevelopmental signalling factors to mimic corticogenesis with induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons and glia.

Growth factors and cytokines are often used as interchangeable terms to describe the proteins involved with cell signaling. But, what […]

In this webinar, learn why bioactivity shouldn’t be the only criteria used to select your growth factors. Endogenous contamination from […]