Cell engineering company Horizon Discovery Group hit by lockdown decline in academic research work The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, but makes its products in Colorado CRISPR is a gene-editing technology that could potentially cure genetic defects Horizon’s earnings fell by over 40% in April compared to the same month in 2019 By Harry Wise … Read more
Professor Sarah Gilbert said it would not be safe for them to do a so-called ‘challenge trial’ of Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate An Oxford academic today dismissed the idea of deliberately infecting volunteers with Covid-19 to test the university’s experimental vaccine because no treatment currently exists to keep patients safe. Hopes of ending the Covid-19 … Read more
Fury as academic defends pulling down statues on Radio 4 and tells the station that actions by Black Lives Matter protesters could be seen as an ‘energising source of hope’ An academic defended toppling statues on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day Professor Tina Beattie’s comments provoked anger among some listeners Beattie claimed the … Read more
Private schools plan to ignore Government advice and open in the new academic year ‘come what may’ Private schools plan to defy official advice and open at the new academic year Some fee-paying schools are organising their own track and trace systems One governor at a leading private school said headteachers are ‘furious’ with the … Read more