The journey from the terraced streets of Leigh, in the heart of the Wigan borough, to the black door of 10 Downing Street is not one that follows a conventional …

A surgical team at a major NHS teaching hospital has successfully completed the United Kingdom’s first long-distance robotic-assisted operation, in which a consultant surgeon performed a complex abdominal procedure 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 …

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 …

The government has unveiled the most significant reform of the UK’s research funding architecture in a generation, proposing a restructuring of UK Research and Innovation, the body that distributes more …