Change UK switches name for third time after clash with petition site June 13, 2019 Beleaguered political party Change UK – The Independent Group has been forced to change its name for the third time following a legal challenge from campaigning website Change.org. The party, which lost six of its 11 MPs earlier in the month following disastrous European elections results, announced yesterday that it had signed a legal agreement [...]
GSK signs up gene-editing pioneers in drug discovery alliance June 13, 2019 Pharmaceutical giant Glaxosmithkline (GSK) has struck a £67m deal with pioneers of a gene-editing technology to help it develop new drugs. GSK, Britain’s largest drugmaker, will fund the new Laboratory for Genetics Research over five years. The lab will be jointly run with the University of California and researchers including professor Jennifer Doudna, a co-inventor [...]
