Queen Mary University of London has launched a new spinout, Procyon Diagnostics, to take omics-based single cancer early detection tests from research to reality. Cancer causes over a quarter of deaths in England, and early detection offers the best hope of survival.

Dracula Technologies has announced the completion of its Series A extension round, bringing the total Series A funding to €30 million. This marks a key milestone in the company's mission to eliminate batteries from billions of connected devices worldwide.

New research paints a stark picture: UK businesses are now facing a sick leave crisis that costs upwards of £20,000 per worker for long-term absences. The root causes are clear burnout, stress, and a growing sense of disconnection among employees, especially pronounced in frontline managers and younger professionals. This is not just about days lost to illness; it is a crisis of workplace wellbeing that threatens organisational productivity, innovation, and morale.

Cambridge is now the UK’s most investible hub for science, according to a new data report which reveals how the Cambridge region has had the highest growth of any UK region outside the capital in the last decade and attracting unprecedented levels of international capital.

A well-structured partnership agreement is vital to the survival of any startup. When enthusiasm and innovation take centre stage, legal detail often falls behind. Many founders focus on growth and funding, overlooking how ownership, governance, and intellectual property are defined.

When engineers powered up JUPITER at Germany’s Jülich Research Centre, the machine quietly made history. Built by the French technology group Atos through its product brand Eviden, JUPITER is Europe’s first exascale supercomputer – and one of only a handful worldwide capable of processing more than one quintillion (or one billion billion) calculations per second.

The scope of Natalya Segal’s influence on the field becomes clear in her patent record. Segal and her team filed a graphics rendering patent addressing visual synchronization (US20120262463A1), smart rendering optimization, and cloud-based GPU usage – work that anticipated both cloud gaming and the GPU infrastructure now essential to AI development, with the patent later acquired by Google. Her subsequent wearable technology patents (US 9,955,286; US 10,225,721; US 10,959,099 (2021)) have been cited by Apple in multiple filings, as well as by Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Dell, Sony, and Microsoft. Whether in cloud infrastructure or wearable interfaces, her work sits at the architectural foundation of modern computing.

The venture capital landscape is undergoing a profound structural shift, one that necessitates a strategic re-evaluation of capital deployment strategies. For the last decade, the industry trended toward the generalist mega-fund, vehicles designed to capture every stage and sector. Today, however, that model is facing structural pressures.

HMRC’s Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment (MTD ITSA) represents one of the most significant changes to UK tax administration in recent years. Sole traders, landlords, and freelancers with an income of £50,000 who previously filed a single annual tax return will instead be required to provide quarterly digital updates, along with a final end-of-period statement, using HMRC-compatible software.

Content marketing has been something of a golden child for companies, recently. SMEs and other firms have been happy to invest heavily in the likes of online articles and blogs, video, e-books, and research reports with the aim of driving customer numbers. According to my company’s research, 91% of marketers have increased their content budgets since 2020

The Framing Effect is all about perception. The way you frame or present the same thing changes how people perceive it. Customers don’t just react to the facts; they react emotionally to how those facts are shown. The roots of the idea go back to the work of Tversky & Kahneman (1981), applied in marketing by Ries & Trout.

Here's an uncomfortable truth many founders discover too late: you've built something brilliant, gained traction, assembled a talented team – but when it comes to raising your next round, finding the right investors feels like searching in the dark. Meanwhile, investors complain they can't discover quality deal flow outside their usual networks.

In a world where our daughters won’t see gender pay parity in their entire careers and there are still three times more men named "John" running UK FTSE 100 companies than women, we’re facing a crisis of invisible women in the workplace.

By 2050, one in six people worldwide will be over 65. In Europe, it will be closer to one in three. Although this stems from the positive reality of longer lives and better health, healthcare systems built for younger, shorter-lived populations now face the growing burdens of chronic disease, multimorbidity, and long-term care. And while we can celebrate the advancements that have taken us here, the ageing population is certainly an economic challenge that we must adapt to.

The Accounting & Business Show Asia 2025 will take place on October 22-23, 2025 at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore, bringing together more than 4,000 accountants, finance leaders, and business decision-makers from across Asia.

Stasher is a luggage storage platform, connecting travellers with over 8,500 vetted locations across 75+ countries. What started as Oxford roommates charging friends to store bags near King's Cross has evolved into a profitable, multi-million pound business that's transforming urban travel infrastructure.

Innovate UK has launched the Agentic AI Pioneers Prize. This national competition aims to unlock the transformative potential of agentic AI across the UK’s most dynamic sectors, including advanced manufacturing, health and life sciences, and the creative industries.

Sanlam Investments has confirmed its third sponsorship of Africa’s Green Economy Summit (AGES), taking place in February 2026, reaffirming its commitment to financing Africa’s sustainable future through innovation in renewable energy, water security, waste reduction, ocean and climate finance.

This November, Workspace Design Show (5th - 6th November 2025, RAI Amsterdam) doesn’t just ask what the workplace should be; it lets you feel the answer. Across Hall 5, five of the Netherlands’ most creative design studios have turned conversation into atmosphere, theory into tactility, and workplace talk into spaces you can smell, hear, shift and claim as your own.

Government leaders across the globe have adopted different negotiation tactics to the sweeping trade tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, with varying degrees of success. The approach taken by the UK Government to secure a deal early on appears to be supported by UK Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs).