North East England is at the forefront of research and development into ageing and health, and stem cells with many government funded programmes currently running here. The north east is always in the news about scientific breakthroughs that are regularly made in biology.

Life sciences are seen as one of the main high-growth sectors of the future and considerable levels of public investment are going into its development. There are many commercial aspects of this which is led by the Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences . For example, the Institute of Ageing and Health at Newcastle University has the UK’s biggest interdisciplinary research group in this field.

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