Sector Insight

The scale of venture innovation today is having a profound effect on many aspects of our lives, from our health, our productivity in our environment. Start-ups can have a positive impact on the economy and society but there is a risk that there will be a loss in costs due to ineffective product development, an ineffective team, negative externalities and the continuously changing technology landscape.

Nanki Kaur Singh

December 13, 2024

Ageing is simply defined as ‘growing older’. ‘Growing older’ is something I believe many of us have accepted as our natural state, as all living things arise fresh, then age, weaken and finally die and that is largely considered as just the way things go. However, some believe ageing entails far more than just ‘growing older’, especially when looking from a health-focused perspective...

Attiya Anna Abbas

December 13, 2024

In this interview, I talk with Stephen Sykes about what founders have to keep in mind, from a legal point of view, when starting their company. Stephen is a lawyer at The Sykes Partnership LLP who specialises in environmental law.

Felix Franke

December 13, 2024

Drug discovery and development are lengthy processes for even the most established Healthcare companies. Despite advancements in technology and ever more accessible research, commercialising new therapeutics still requires a significant amount of time and capital. Given these caveats, Healthcare companies dedicate significant resources to identify high potential drug targets within the cell. However, certain biomolecular components have proved challenging to build robust therapeutics for. Here, we explore why the Ras family of proteins are such attractive drug targets and why some Healthcare companies still have skin in the game despite four decades of failed attempts.

Arjun Kandola

December 13, 2024

In October 2014, two open community labs in the San Francisco Bay Area entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s prestigious international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) synthetic biology competition with their ‘Real Vegan Cheese’ (RVC) project and went on to win a gold medal. Counter Culture Labs and BioCurious collaborate on this grassroots, non-profit project with the goal of producing cow’s cheese without using cows.

Swathi Kumar

December 13, 2024

Retinol, Niacinamide, Salicylic acid. These “bioactive” ingredients have taken the skincare world by storm, trending all over YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. They claim to alter the way in which your skin functions on a molecular level to improve its appearance…which all sounds incredibly scientific and convincing. If you use Google to research these ingredients, it appears that every website, from Healthline to Vogue, is in agreement to their purported benefit. However, the evidence within scientific literature for bioactive ingredients is somewhat lacking. So, where is the ‘clinically proven’ evidence?!

Molly Steadman

December 13, 2024