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The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is funding eight new research projects that will help people self-manage chronic conditions, such as COPD and diabetes, at home while linked to support from carers and clinicians – funded through a 10 million pound investment.

The research will take place at seven UK universities; involve over 30 partners from industry, charities and the public sector who will add contributions worth over three quarters of a million pounds. 

Researchers at the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are demonstrating a software framework that can automatically generate computer code which enables scientific applications to run on supercomputers.

Illumina is to develop and co-market analysis software for single cell next-generation sequencing (NGS) data.

The Solar Impulse team that recently completed a round the world flight using a solar-powered aircraft, used Dassault Systèmes ‘Engineered to Fly’ software to design the aircraft

Esteco Academy, has launched its 2016 Design Competition in collaboration with Aprilia Racing and Gamma Technologies

Ansys, a provider of engineering simulation technology, has announced the release of its SeaScape architecture to help engineers accelerate the optimisation of designs using a combination of elastic computation, machine learning, big data analytics and simulation technology

The UK Hartree Centre, in partnership with IBM Watson, has organised a three-day event to give people the chance to use and develop cognitive computing technologies using IBMs Watson computing system

A major contract analytical laboratory, AAIPharma Services/Cambridge Major Laboratories, is expanding its use of IDBS E‑WorkBook across its US analytical laboratories and will be incorporating its Netherlands facility over the coming months