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Edinburgh Science Festival 2021: One World
Tuesday 10th November 2020, 5:00pm

Open call offering companies and individuals the chance to be part of Edinburgh Science in 2021. The Festival will run from Saturday 26 June – Sunday 11 July.

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BBSRC backs projects producing high-value chemicals from biotech
Wednesday 4th November 2020, 4:30pm

Projects using cutting edge biotechnology to produce high-value chemicals have received funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) with two awarded to the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with Roslin Innovation Centre based Ingenza Ltd and Green Bioactives.

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Clean water entrepreneurs tackle global problem
Monday 2nd November 2020, 5:00pm

Clean Water Wave is a new tenant company at Roslin Innovation Centre. Dr Stephanie Terreni-Brown discusses what they offer and their unique CAFE system.

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40 new entrepreneurs join Unlocking Ambition
Wednesday 28th October 2020, 4:30pm

Forty of Scotland’s most talented, innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs are joining Scotland’s flagship entrepreneurial development programme, Unlocking Ambition.

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Bayer Acquires AskBio to Broaden Innovation Base in Cell and Gene Therapy
Monday 26th October 2020, 4:30pm

Bayer, the pharma player, has snapped up AskBio in a $2 billion cash deal to buy out one of the fast-moving pioneers in the field of new generation of cell and gene therapies, while adding up to $2 billion more in milestones. The company's European HQ are at Roslin Innovation Centre.

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Scottish Enterprise grant helping Ingenza to deliver novel biologics production platform
Tuesday 20th October 2020, 3:00pm

Ingenza’s ambitious SYNBIOPRO project for the development of biopharmaceuticals continues to make significant progress, despite the global disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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UK Government earmarks $13m for industrial insect farm
Wednesday 7th October 2020, 5:00pm

The UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) has earmarked £10 million to help build the country’s first large-scale industrial insect farm.

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Appliance of science a key for Covid-19 recovery
Saturday 3rd October 2020, 4:00pm

Translating cutting-edge science into commercial applications should form a key part of the Covid-19 recovery, is a plea by Professor Bruce Whitelaw to ‘unleash the potential’ of Roslin’s advances.

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Solar farm boosts University zero carbon bid
Thursday 24th September 2020, 3:00pm

A solar farm that will play a vital role in helping the University of Edinburgh become carbon neutral by 2040 is nearing completion.

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Driving effective breeding programmes for sweet potato in Uganda
Wednesday 23rd September 2020, 4:30pm

AbacusBio consultants have been collaborating with the International Potato Center (CIP) in Uganda to identify priorities and create solutions to identify traits that are important to stakeholders across the sweet potato supply chain.

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