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Oscar Hornstein @ UK Tech News · 11/18/2025 01:15 EDT

EXCLUSIVE: Government launches £1m bioengineering sandbox fund

The UK government has launched a £1m sandbox fund to support work researching how bioengineering can help tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Antimicrobial resistance, when bacteria becomes less susceptible to antibiotics, is a major global health concern though to already be responsible for more than one million deaths every year, a figure expected to grow without meaningful ...

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