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The Francis Crick Institute receives £1 billion in funding for biomedical research

14 July 2022

The Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and Wellcome Trust will provide The Francis Crick institute with £1 billion in funding over the next seven years to help expand the research institutes role

Satellite, space

The first CERN-driven satellite has been successfully launched

14 July 2022

CELESTA, the first CERN-driven satellite, successfully entered orbit during the maiden flight of Europe’s Vega-C launch vehicle

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Infosys to Acquire BASE

14 July 2022

Infosys has announced a definitive agreement to acquire BASE life science, a European technology and consulting firm in the life sciences industry

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Quantum Computing

Collaboration explores quantum computing for semiconductor research

13 July 2022

Quantinuum has announced a global collaboration with materials technology leader JSR Corporation of Japan to explore the application of quantum computing methods in semiconductor research.

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Quantum Computing

Oxford Quantum Circuits raises £38 million Series A funding

06 July 2022

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) has announced raising £38 million in the first close of an on-going Series A investment round

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AI, Quantum, Edge

Life Sciences centre aims to accelerate drug development and enable precision medicine

05 July 2022

Atos and the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, UK, have announced the official opening of its global Life Sciences Centre of Excellence.

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RISC-V, Code optimisation

German startup MachineWare announces a RISC-V simulator

30 June 2022

MachineWare aims to disrupt semiconductor design with the introduction of its high-speed functional RISC-V simulator, SIM-V

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Agriculture

Micropep raises €8.75 million to deliver cost-effective alternatives to conventional crop protection

29 June 2022

Micropep, an ag-biotech company developing biological micropeptide-based solutions for agriculture, has announced the completion of a €8.75 million Series A1 financing round

Synthesis, cheminformatics, Automation

NEW: White paper from Merck KGaA

24 June 2022

Reducing Risk and Improving Synthesis Outcomes with SYNTHIA Retrosynthesis Software

Ultrathin capacitor could enable energy-efficient microchips

24 June 2022

A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have identified one energy-efficient route to developing ultrathin transistors

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Quantum Computing

Amazon announces a centre for quantum networking

24 June 2022

Amazon has announced the AWS Center for Quantum Networking (CQN) with a mission to address these fundamental scientific and engineering challenges and to develop new hardware, software, and applications for quantum networks

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oncology, AI

Scientists diagnose brain tumours using AI

23 June 2022

A recently published study by Karl Landsteiner University for Health Sciences demonstrated the use of artificial intelligence in brain tumour classification.

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