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EPSRC awards £18m to UCL Engineering facility

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded a total of £18million to three projects led by University College London Engineering faculty.

UCL announces silicon photonics breakthrough

UK researchers have provided the first demonstration of an electrically driven, quantum dot laser grown directly on a silicon substrate (Si) with a wavelength suitable for use in telecommunications – 1300nm.

New technology could give DNA results ‘in minutes’

Scientists from Imperial College London are developing technology that they say could sequence a person's genome in minutes and at a fraction of the cost of current commercial techniques. The researchers have patented an early prototype technology that they believe could lead to an ultrafast commercial DNA sequencing tool within 10 years.

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