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Cell therapy spinout targets liver repair treatment

2 December 2020

IRR video competition winners

30 October 2020

£2m donation to support regenerative medicine research

19 October 2020

IRR Early Career Innovator 2020

09 June 2020

Army of scientists search for Covid-19 treatments

22 April 2020

IRR photo competition winners

15 January 2020

New kind of PhD to give future researchers an edge

6 January 2020

CTR building "Tops out"

2 March 2020

This article was published on Monday 29 July 2024

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