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Invitation to Tender: Specialist Property Strategy for York

3 August 2010 by Andy Gurnell

Science City York is seeking responses to an ITT for development of a specialist property strategy for the science and technology-based business sector in York. Details of the ITT are provided in the attached document, which should be downloaded and read carefully by prospective respondents.

 

Any queries in respect of this tender should be submitted via e-mail to andy [dot] gurnell [at] scy [dot] co [dot] uk (Andy Gurnell), Delivery Services Manager

 

York Management School Helps Inventor to Hit the Peak

4 September 2010 by Kat Hetherington

 
The York Management School at the University of York is helping a local business commercialize a new product that will make life easier for sportsmen and women who wear glasses.
  

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Community Volunteers hit the Hedgehog Trail in Hull

4 September 2010 by Kat Hetherington


Scientists from the OPAL (Open Air Laboratories) project at the University of York are seeking the help of Hull residents to assess how hedgehogs are using green spaces such as parks and gardens across the city.
  

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Profits Rise at CPP

4 September 2010 by Kat Hetherington

 

Scarborough Members Invited to LEP Meeting

4 September 2010 by Kat Hetherington


Members of the Chamber in Scarborough and the surrounding areas are invited to attend a meeting to discuss the future of the Local Enterprise Partnership. The aim of this meeting is to gather views from local businesses about what Scarborough needs to further develop its economy as well as what they consider to be the priorities for the LEP.

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York St John Offers new Business Support

4 September 2010 by Kat Hetherington


York St John University Business School is offering new support to business in a partnership with advice service The Alternative Board.

The business school is to hold a series of "board meetings" where people running companies can confidentially discuss the issues they are facing with others in similar circumstances.

It is inviting 11 SME companies from across Yorkshire to take part in the programme which starts next month and will be led by Ed Reid from TAB.

Tailor-Made Cutting Proteins for DNA Engineering

2 August 2010 by Mark Saw

We all know the standard restriction enzymes that have been used for years to specifically cut sequences of double-stranded DNA but now there's a new contender on the block. A team of researchers at Iowa State University have developed a hybrid protein that can target a specific sequence of DNA and then cut the double strand.

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Use a Common Cold Virus to Target and Disrupt Cancer Cell?

5 August 2010 by Mark Saw

Researchers from the Salk Institute have published a paper describing findings into how adenovirus controls crucial cell death mechanisms that are also knocked out in cancer cells. The research has been published in the 26th August edition of Nature here.

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York Open Studios 2011 - Call for Artists

3 August 2010 by HeatherNiven

Artists and makers who live or work within a ten-mile radius of York are invited to apply for the 10th anniversary York Open Studios taking place over two weekends:  April 1,2&3 and 8,9&10 2011. 

 

Deadline for receipt of applications: Saturday 17 September 2010. Further details and application forms are now available to download from http://www.yorkopenstudios.co.uk/
or call Ruth King:

T 01904 470196
  
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Annelise from the Big Buzz, Just Returned from the Edinburgh Fringe

2 August 2010 by HeatherNiven

Hear about how our Creative York member Annelise Emmands Dean got on with her performance at the fringe festival in Edinburgh.  She is just back now from performing her award-winning eco-show Buzzing! at the Edinburgh Fringe 2010. 

 

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