The British economy has delivered its strongest quarterly performance in nearly three years, with gross domestic product expanding by 0.6 per cent between April and June, official figures confirmed on …

In a laboratory on the Wellcome Genome Campus outside Cambridge, a technician places a small tissue sample into a sequencing machine no larger than a desktop printer. The sample is …

Twelve months ago, the government published a sector plan for the life sciences industry with a bold but, to many observers, optimistic target: to attract £3 billion in combined public …

In a church hall in Peckham, a group of volunteers is arranging folding chairs, filling plastic cups with water and testing the two portable air-conditioning units donated by a local …

A landmark report published by a consortium of British universities and research institutions has concluded that a comprehensive programme to sequence the DNA of every wild species in the United …