Industrialist to head UK research councils

Funding Funding for the All Hands Meeting is provided by the UK Research Councils via the e-Science Core

The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute has funded a project that aims to create a portal version of the Access Grid Toolkit (AGTk) client. This aims to solve problems that restrict the uptake of Access Grid technologies for a wide range of users. The main issues we intend to solve are restrictions imposed by network firewalls, bandwidth limitations, and complicated installation procedures...

Building Digital Economy - The Research Councils Programme and the Vision

We at the Research Councils believe that there are many aspects of society and business that could be transformed by the innovative design and use of digital technologies. This has led to the Digital Economy Programme. The Digital Economy is an RCUK Cross-Research Council Programme, led by the EPSRC, but working closely with ESRC, MRC, AHRC and TSB. What is Digital Economy? Digital Economy is t...

Human–animal embryos to boost UK research

Plans last year by the UK government to block the proposals by researchers to create human–animal hybrid embryos for stem-cell research were withdrawn this spring as the government proposed new mechanisms to consider the issue. Researchers want to create such hybrids because they can provide valuable stem cells to allow researchers to study the development of many incurable diseases, which the ...

UK Undergraduate Research Program

UK Undergraduate Research Program