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Fashion industry collaboration to create lab-grown fur
Luxury fashion house Fendi, part of LVMH, wants a sustainable alternative to fur. Researchers from Imperial and Central Saint Martins are on the case.
Fashion industry collaboration to create lab-grown fur
Luxury fashion house Fendi, part of LVMH, wants a sustainable alternative to fur. Researchers from Imperial and Central Saint Martins are on the case.
National hub to support synthetic biology extended with £5.5m funding commitment
SynbiCITE, the UK’s National Centre for the Industrial Translation of Synthetic Biology, has received a £5.5m funding commitment from SynBioVen.
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A new Network of Excellence in Fungal Science is launched at Imperial
A Network of Excellence bringing together researchers at Imperial and beyond to tackle global challenges in fungal science.
Self-healing ‘living materials’ used as 3D building blocks
Imperial researchers have created 3D building blocks that can heal themselves in response to damage.
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Low-cost, disease-detecting biosensors show global health promise
Researchers have developed low-cost, biodegradable biosensors for global health applications in resource-limited settings.
Kombucha-inspired microbial mixture lets scientists create 'living materials'
Imperial and MIT researchers have made smart living materials by engineering microbes to detect and react to their environment.
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Two Imperial ‘research visionaries’ win Academy Chairs in Emerging Technologies
The Royal Academy of Engineering has appointed two Imperial engineers as Chairs in Emerging Technologies.
New Riffyn-Imperial partnership set to accelerate synthetic biology research
A new open-science collaboration will establish a digital backbone for synthetic biology research and education in scientific reproducibility.
Sustainability startups join the Imperial White City Incubator
A cluster of startups has joined the Imperial Incubator community to advance their technologies for renewable energy and sustainable food industries.
Bacteria ‘factories’ used to discover potential new malaria drugs
Researchers have engineered bacteria to produce new versions of a potential antibiotic molecule, some with potent antimalarial properties.