Biotechnology company Prothena to raise $114m with public offering April 8, 2015 Irish biotechnology company Prothena has confirmed a public offering which is expected to raise more than $100m (£67m). The firm, which is listed on Nasdaq and concentrates on developing new antibodies for treating diseases such as Parkinson's and inflammatory disorders, said it will sell 3.3m ordinary shares at $37 per share which it expects to [...]
UK cancer treatment gets £100m boost with proton beam therapy centres in Cardiff, London and Northumberland April 8, 2015 Three new cancer treatment centres are to be built in the UK over the next two years transforming the nation's ability to treat some rare forms of the disease. The first proton beam therapy centre will by open in Cardiff in 2016, followed by one in London and one in Northumberland, with all three due [...]
Power poses might signal authority, but they won’t actually boost your career April 8, 2015 Put those power-lunges away, people: it turns out the idea that striking a dominant pose at work gives you an ego boost and makes you more competent at your job is false, a new study has shown. It had been thought (and oft-repeated in management books) that holding yourself "like a boss" (ie. feet apart, [...]
World Health Day 2015: Six food safety tips for your home April 7, 2015 World Health Day has come around once more, and this year the focus is on food safety. The World Health Organisation, which organises the annual event, has picked this as one of the biggest dangers society currently faces, and estimates it leads to around two million deaths across the world each year. With the [...]
Large Hadron Collider: What is it and why is it so important for our understanding of everything in the world? April 7, 2015 Keen particle physicists received the best Easter present possible over the weekend – after two years of being in hibernation, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland was rebooted once more. The machine holds promises to advance understanding of the laws of physics at the most minuscule yet fundamental level. By recreating temperatures [...]
Women’s life expectancy has fallen for the first time since 1995 – and it could be because they’re taking up traditionally male habits April 7, 2015 Female life expectancy among the over-60s in the UK has stopped rising for the first time in two decades, and for some age groups it has actually gone down, a new study shows. Women aged 65 had the same life expectancy in 2011 and 2013, while older women experienced a slight fall during the two [...]
Charged in 60 seconds: Superfast battery could charge smartphones and laptops in just one minute April 7, 2015 An end to dead smartphone batteries? An experimental battery which can be recharged from zero to 100 per cent in an “unprecedented” 60 seconds has the potential to revolutionise technological devices. Made of aluminium rather than lithium or alkaline like those currently used in smartphones and laptops, the battery is also safer and cheaper to [...]
World Health Day 2015: These are the world’s healthiest cities to live in April 7, 2015 It's World Health Day – an annual event created by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to remind us of the importance of healthy living across the world. With pollution levels rising and the number of people suffering from obesity steadily increasing, the need for us to assess our lifestyle choices is growing. But in the [...]
Easter Sunday 2015: Six ways get healthy and lose weight after a chocolate-filled weekend April 5, 2015 Over Easter weekend, most of us (rightly) indulged in chocolates, hot crossed buns and every other kind to sweet thing we could get our hands on. It was great at the time, but it's left behind a definite feeling of poor health. To get you feeling healthier and looking slimmer as quickly and easily as [...]
Funding Circle’s new funding round will value the London FinTech startup at $1bn April 2, 2015 Funding Circle is on the verge of closing a new round of funding which would value the London FinTech startup at more than $1bn (£674m) and see it join just a handful of UK tech companies with billion-dollar valuations. The peer-to-peer lender could close funding of more than £50m within weeks, including backing from Blackrock and [...]