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CHESHIRE, England, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A UK company has received a GBP2.6m ($4.3m) Strategic Translation Award from the Wellcome Trust to progress its development of a new, rapid point-of-care test for the diagnosis of tuberculosis [http://www.globalbiodiagnostics.com/gbd-technology ], one of the world's biggest killers. Global BioDiagnostics [http://www.globalbiodiagnostics.com ] (GBD), based at Sci-Tech Daresbury, Cheshire, UK, and Texas, USA, has received...

DARESBURY, England, February 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer visited Sci-Tech Daresbury [http://www.sci-techdaresbury.com ] to announce a GBP30 million government investment into the world-leading Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC [http://www.stfc.ac.uk ]) super-computing facilities at the site. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130207/594335 ) The funding will be used to support the progress of power...