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Over a third of automotive employers have cut jobs due to Brexit fears, according to new figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

A UK research team has pioneered a novel technique for engineering tissues which has the capacity to greatly reduce the time taken to fabricate implantable human tissue.

“Like anything, there is a challenge in funding these building projects, despite their long-term benefits”.

BNFL recently agreed to sell its specialist nuclear services business, Project Services, to VT Group, the Southampton-based defence and support services company.

A full-scale demonstrator of what is claimed to be the first tidal-stream-energy device for estuaries is to be deployed in the Humber Estuary.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is to sell the Angel Trains Group to an investment consortium led by Babcock & Brown for £3.6bn.

NASA is soliciting proposals for studies designed to identify advanced vehicle concepts and enabling technologies for commercial airliners to fly more economically, quieter and less polluting by 2025.

Northern Ireland-based engineering company FG Wilson is set to receive a £47 million investment boost to research and manufacture diesel and natural gas powered electrical generators.

Rensselaer Polytechnic researchers are to develop 3D virtual patient models that may eventually help radiologists to use safer doses of radiation when treating patients.