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Keep up to date with the latest news from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology.
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Manchester researchers help secure £49.35m to boost mass spectrometry research
28 Mar 2024
Scientists at The University of Manchester have supported a successful bid for a new distributed research and innovation infrastructure aimed at ...
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Postdoctoral researcher wins prestigious Women in Science award for sustainable development
22 Mar 2024
Dr Reem Swidah, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Manchester, has been awarded the prestigious L'Oréal UNESCO Award for Women in Science...
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The University of Manchester awarded nearly £7 million to advance UK's engineering biology initiatives
13 Feb 2024
Today, researchers from The University of Manchester have been named as recipients of nearly £7m funding from UKRI’s Engineering Biology Hubs and ...
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Scientists develop new biocontainment method for industrial organisms
5 Feb 2024
Researchers in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) at The University of Manchester have developed a new biocontainment method for limiting...
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Manchester professors honoured in 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
17 Jan 2024
Two University of Manchester professors have been recognised in the prestigious 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
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The University of Manchester and Shell partner to bring more sustainable chemical manufacturing to market
29 Nov 2023
The University of Manchester (UoM) and Shell Research Limited (Shell) have come together in a Prosperity Partnership worth over £9 million to find ...
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The University of Manchester’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Industrial Biotechnology hits 100,000 learners
24 Nov 2023
The University of Manchester's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in industrial biotechnology has hit 100,000 learners. The course, launched in 2017 on...
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Scientists one step closer to re-writing world’s first synthetic yeast genome, unravelling the fundamental building blocks of life
8 Nov 2023
Scientists have engineered a chromosome entirely from scratch that will contribute to the production of the world’s first synthetic yeast.
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University to train next generation of AI researchers in new UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training
31 Oct 2023
The University of Manchester has been awarded funding for a new UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision Making for Complex Systems.
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Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Catalyst (IBIC) launches to drive economic growth in the Northwest of England
6 Oct 2023
The Northwest of England is set to become a global hub for Industrial Biotechnology (IB) innovation, thanks to the launch of the Industrial ...
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The University of Manchester secures major bioscience funding to harness the activity of microbiomes for a more sustainable future
28 Sep 2023
Scientists at The University of Manchester are set to receive a multi-million-pound grant to advance our understanding of interactions in microbiomes ...
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Researchers develop a new approach to scale-up manufacturing of life-saving oligonucleotide therapeutics
28 Jun 2023
Scientists have developed a new approach to produce life-saving oligonucleotide therapeutics on a large scale, in high purity, and with minimal ...
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Two innovative research teams win Royal Society of Chemistry’s prestigious Horizon Prizes
13 Jun 2023
The Enzyme Discovery team won the Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award, while the Molecular Ratcheteers team won ...
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Researchers win prestigious national award celebrating ‘outstanding women post-doctoral scientists’
26 Apr 2023
Two researchers from The University of Manchester have won a 2023 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Rising Talents Award.
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Scientists develop a ‘cosmic concrete’ that is twice as strong as regular concrete
16 Mar 2023
Manchester scientists have created a new material, dubbed ‘StarCrete’ which is made from extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and a pinch of ...
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Aoife Taylor: from PhD to CEO
8 Mar 2023
When we last sat down with Aoife Taylor she told us about her experiences of being a woman in STEM, what it was like carrying out a PhD during the ...
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New consortium aims to expand patient access to life-saving oligonucleotide therapeutics
28 Feb 2023
CPI sets out to prove a new concept for manufacturing oligonucleotides through a £2.7 million partnership with AstraZeneca, Novartis, and The ...
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CDT BioDesign Engineering recruiting PhDs
22 Dec 2022
CDT BioDesign Engineering are now recruiting PhD positions, with an application deadline of Sunday 15th January.
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Sequencing project to unleash the biotechnology potential of single-celled algae
22 Nov 2022
Euglenoids, single-celled eukayotic flagellates, are relatively understudied, but their genomes hold great biotechnological potential. The Euglena ...
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Manchester to build an interplanetary future through innovation in advanced materials and robots
6 Oct 2022
Pioneering scientists and engineers from The University of Manchester are looking to build a future in space through innovation in advanced materials ...
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A nose to diagnose: improving Parkinson's diagnosis
5 Oct 2022
Joy Milne is a ‘super smeller’, she has a rare condition called hyperosmia that gives her an extremely sensitive sense of smell. Throughout her ...
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'Tales From The future' - a new way forward for beer brewing
18 Aug 2022
‘Tales From The Future’, a beer made in a recent collaboration between researchers at The University of Manchester and Cloudwater Brew Co., will ...
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Engineering enzymes to help solve the planet's plastic problem
11 Aug 2022
Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) have developed a new enzyme engineering platform to improve plastic degrading enzymes...
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First RAF drone flight using a synthetic fuel
14 Jun 2022
MIB spin-out company, C3 BIOTECH, in collaboration with the Royal Air Force and the US Navy, have successfully flown a drone using synthetic kerosene.
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