Framework Programmes

Statistics on UK participation in EU Framework Programmes

Statistics on UK participation in EU Framework Programmes A comprehensive analysis of the UK's participation and performance in the European Union's Framework Programmes for research and innovation. This report covers Horizon 2020 (H2020) from 2014 to 2020 and the first 4 years of Horizon Europe (HEU) from 2021 to 2024. Drawing on European Commission data, it examines overall trends in UK funding and participation, including the UK’s relative performance across pillars, organisation types...

Bangladesh seeks new IMF lending deal, officials say

Bangladesh seeks new IMF lending deal, officials say DHAKA, June 3 : Bangladesh has requested a new loan arrangement from the International Monetary Fund and is exiting its current $5.5 billion programme, government officials said on Wednesday. The officials said Dhaka will soon start talks with the IMF on a framework that would shape the design and conditions of the new lending programme. Government officials said that the current programme was negotiated in a markedly different economic...

HMRC Evaluation Framework

HMRC Evaluation Framework The framework sets out HMRC's evaluation approach and how it fits with wider government best practice. This framework was updated in 2026 — click here to read the new page. The evaluation framework sets out our approach for achieving HMRC’s evaluation vision of good quality monitoring and evaluations of policies, programmes and projects in line with government good practice.

New 'SMArT' platform makes gene editing in hematopoietic stem cells more efficient and safer

New 'SMArT' platform makes gene editing in hematopoietic stem cells more efficient and safer Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor A team of researchers led by Luigi Naldini at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget) has developed a new strategy to significantly improve the precision and safety of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in human blood stem cells, potentially overcoming one of the major barriers limiting broader clinical application of genome...

CodeCytos: AI-assisted spatial molecular imaging analysis via code-augmented agent action space

Conventional tissue image analysis software provides foundational capabilities for cellular analysis, including segmentation, morphological feature extraction, and spatial organization analysis; however, these tools often require manual intervention and lack seamless integration with code-driven automation, limiting efficiency and scalability for complex spatial tissue studies, while also offering limited flexibility for custom analyses by supporting only a fixed set of predefined spatial...

AI brews a caffeine-powered safety switch for future cell therapies

AI brews a caffeine-powered safety switch for future cell therapies Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor For many of us, a warm cup of coffee is how we start our day. For Texas A&M Health researchers, it may also offer a new way to control engineered cells in future medicines. A team at the Texas A&M Health Institute of Biosciences and Technology has developed an artificial intelligence-designed molecular switch that uses caffeine to rapidly separate engineered proteins...

‘People are like: you’re a crackpot’: how Sam Campbell became comedy’s oddball superstar

‘People are like: you’re a crackpot’: how Sam Campbell became comedy’s oddball superstar

Having enjoyed breakout fame on Taskmaster and Last One Laughing, the subversive Australian comic has been handed the reins of his own, very strange sitcom. Get ready for feet animations and a character called Super-Breast …The premise of Make That Movie, Australian comedian Sam Campbell’s deeply strange new Channel 4 series, is not easy to describe. A show-within-a-show, it stars its creator as an alternative Sam Campbell: rather than his real-life idiosyncratic standup self, he’s a pompous...

Iran-US war latest: US forces fire at ship ‘running Hormuz blockade’ while Israel intensifies war in Lebanon

Iran-US war latest: US forces fire at ship ‘running Hormuz blockade’ while Israel intensifies war in Lebanon Senior Iranian official accuses Donald Trump of 'betraying diplomacy for third time' - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments US forces attacked a cargo ship they claimed was attempting to breach their naval blockade of Iran on Saturday. Centcom said Lian Star ignored over 20 warnings before its forces struck the Gambia-flagged vessel's engine room with a missile, stranding it in the Gulf...

RNA-guided transposon mechanics show use of figure-eight intermediate and direct-transfer route

RNA-guided transposon mechanics show use of figure-eight intermediate and direct-transfer route Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor IS110 transposons are a large, diverse family of bacterial insertion sequences (IS elements)—small, mobile DNA elements that can move from one genomic location to another. They have recently attracted broad interest due to the finding that some of these transposons use a bridge RNA (bRNA) to recognize both donor DNA and target DNA. Upon...