Scientists at Manchester will contribute specialist expertise in enzyme engineering and therapeutic oligonucleotides to treat mitochondrial disease.

We describe a panel of flavoenzymes with the ability to catalyse stereoselective hydrogen isotope exchange (HIE) between 2H2O (D2O) and reduced nicotinamide cofactors, enabling a simple and redox-neut...

PhD Project - (CODE M) Losing your head: how do bacterial viruses evolve into anti-competitor weapons? at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

Glycans direct many biological recognition and signalling processes, spanning basic cell biology to diagnostics and therapy. Multivalent presentation of glycans is well established to increase avidity...

Biomedical research techniques that don’t involve the use of animals are gaining momentum, but those using innovative approaches still face resistance from some quarters.

Severe blood loss due to trauma, anaemia, or chemotherapy necessitates immediate red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. The short shelf-life of RBCs at 4 …

npj Parkinson's Disease - Classification of Parkinson’s disease and isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder: delineating progression markers from the sebum volatilome

This work demonstrates the use of polymer-tethered glycosylated gold nanoparticles for the label-free evaluation of influenza virus binding in a simple microplate. Sialylated linear and branched glyc...

A new project - funded by a £8.5M grant from the UK Government’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) - will leverage advances in engineering biology to establish synthetic plant chromosome (...

Get ready for two jam-packed days of talks, discussions, and prestigious medal lectures at the 2025 MacroGroup Annual Symposia!

Density functional theory calculations on the nonheme iron desaturase BrvJ show that desaturation happens through two consecutive hydrogen atom abstraction barriers, while the OH rebound barrier is s...

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The University of Manchester and Bupa have announced an innovative new collaboration to develop new methods and strategies to drastically reduce the healthcare sector’s environmental impact upon our p...

The project, led by the University of Kent, and including The University of Manchester, and University College London (UCL), will address the development gap in the diagnostics innovation ecosystem.Ac...

Published today (15 January 2025) in Nature, this breakthrough centres on a process called nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr), a class of transformation that is widely used across the chemical ...

A new study from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology describes a novel biological method to convert mixed municipal waste-like fractions – including food scraps, plastics, and textiles – into va...

We are pleased to announce that Professor Anthony Green has been appointed as the new Director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), taking over from Professor Rob Field, who led the ins...