
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

Building the business of biodesign
Synthetic biology remains nascent, yet full of promise. The idea of using rational engineering approaches to design biology has the potential to solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges, such as securing food supplies...
- Bioinnovation
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Strategic advice

CellPreserve: our innovation could help prolong the lives of cancer patients
Diagnosing cancer early to treat it more effectively is vital. Here, Josh Gibson, senior physicist at Cambridge Consultants, unveils a potentially life-saving breakthrough in the field of liquid biopsy that’s been hailed by a leading innovation award jury…
- Bioinnovation
- Digital health

Tri-Con 2021 reflects the rapid pace of development in diagnostics
The past year has seen an unprecedented acceleration of innovation in the diagnostics space. Reflecting on the virtual themes and debates at Molecular Med Tri-Con 2021, Head of Life Sciences Symon Cotton says that the speed of tests and vaccines coming to market is not having an adverse effect on quality. Medical developments can be safely delivered to quicker timescales...
- Bioinnovation
- Digital health
- Human factors

What’s next for targeted medicine? We report back from SLAS 2021
Symon Cotton, Head of Life Sciences at Cambridge Consultants, attended this year’s Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening conference, SLAS2021. Even in virtual form, the speakers dazzled with fresh and exciting ideas for the future of patient treatments.
- Bioinnovation
- Digital health

Our core technology is at the heart of the world’s first FDA-approved fully at-home COVID-19 test
The rapid, at home COVID-19 antigen test from digital diagnostics company Ellume features core technology from Cambridge Consultants. Read how this FDA approved test is set to be a game-changer in the global pandemic.
- Bioinnovation
- Digital health
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Sensing

UK Human Tissue Authority licence enhances our next-generation therapy development
We are delighted to report a significant step forward as we grow our bioinnovation capability as we have received our licence from the UK Human Tissue Authority to store human tissue for research purposes. This opens the way to future development in cell therapies and regenerative medicine.
- Bioinnovation

Mixing it up – a possible way to provide COVID-19 testing for all
Symon Cotton explores the use of pooled testing techniques for deploying mass Covid testing.
- Bioinnovation

Food, sustainability and COVID drive a sense of urgency at SynBioBeta 2020
James Hallinan's takeaway from SynBioBeta 2020: Synbio is growing up and getting ever more relevant to the everyday.
- Bioinnovation

Engineering the future of innovations in oncology
This paper highlights macro and micro factors affecting oncology and proposes a partnership-driven framework to catalyze innovation for oncology-focused biopharma – as well as the role that select high-impact technologies will have on the on the entire value-chain of cancer research and care delivery.
- AI & Analytics
- Bioinnovation
- Digital health
- Dispense
- Robotics
- Sensing

No more walking on eggshells: is the way we make vaccines changing forever?
With a constant stream of good news about potential COVID-19 vaccines, we reflect on traditional viral vaccine manufacturing processes and how we apply what we’re learning during this pandemic to legacy techniques.
- Bioinnovation

Bioinnovation: from research to commercialisation
The UK biotechnology scene is buzzing with debate right now, with critical themes like green growth and sustainability really coming to the fore. The pandemic has thrust science and scientists into the spotlight like never before – and each of us has a responsibility to contribute to the sort of response that will help create a more resilient world.
- Bioinnovation
- Project management
- Strategic advice

Bioinnovation - joining cool science to global issues via business reality
Richard Hammond presents a seminar on Bioinnovation from Innovation Day UK 2019.
- Bioinnovation