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European Laboratory Day: an era of transformation

Added: 5 Nov 2024

European Laboratory Day, celebrated on 5 November, celebrates the vital contributions of lab profes…

Web3: Stopping the (link) rot

Added: 4 Nov 2024

Philipp Koellinger, co-founder and CEO of open science start-up DeSci Lab – Joint winner for Best A…

How inventory management can unlock capital for pharma firms

Added: 4 Nov 2024

Lack of investment can be an issue in the lab but, says Mohib Rahmani, there is much that pharmaceu…

Budget delivers financial heft to Labour’s science R&D promises

Added: 3 Nov 2024

The Labour government’s first Budget appeared to confirm a commitment to life sciences and research…

Lab Awards for the brightest and the best

Added: 1 Nov 2024

Once again rising stars and leading industry brands competed for the hotly-contested Lab Awards, st…

Creators vow lightweight material will be a booster for space travel

Added: 27 Oct 2024

Academics in British and Indian universities claim they have developed a revolutionary material for…

Leukaemia research pioneers share £0.6 million fellowship funding

Added: 27 Oct 2024

Four female scientists leading innovation in cancer research have won this year’s John Goldman Fell…

Birmingham cell science initiative promises cross-application testing

Added: 27 Oct 2024

University of Birmingham Enterprise announces the launch of a new division, Biocell Energetics, to …

Stand by for the big freeze

Added: 26 Oct 2024

Crisp white snow, glaciers all around, icicles melting in the summer sun – it’s July in Britain 50 …

Lab innovations 2024: automation and productivity in the laboratory

Added: 22 Oct 2024

With Lab innovations 2024 fast approaching, Russell Lotinga of show exhibitor Festo, explains how a…

Swallow research produces Eppendorf win for Seeholzer

Added: 20 Oct 2024

American Laura Seeholzer is this year’s winner of the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology, i…

Finnish university on the circular economy CACE

Added: 20 Oct 2024

Applications are invited for a recently debuted Master’s programme in circular economy chemistry an…

Lab News roundup: multimillion investments and an RF breakthrough

Added: 18 Oct 2024

The University of Warwick is to invest £700 million in its West Midlands campus as part of its Conn…

Hydrogen bonding breakthrough for materials science

Added: 13 Oct 2024

New work from researchers could have the potential to offer breakthroughs in applications such as c…

Lab Innovations exhibitors to share on-stand expertise

Added: 13 Oct 2024

More than 4,000 attendees are expected to produce its largest-ever turnout for this year’s Lab Inno…

Fulfilling Biopharma’s needs using process Raman Spectroscopy

Added: 12 Oct 2024

Quality control is vital to biopharma workflows, explains Sudhir Dahal. Raman spectroscopy can play…

AI, genes and proteins dominate Nobel 2024 prizes

Added: 11 Oct 2024

Pioneering work in AI, gene regulation and protein science underpinned this year’s Nobel Prize scie…

Uni-industry pairing to address UK lack of toxicology testing

Added: 6 Oct 2024

Kingston University is joining forces with an East Anglian based testing specialist to open a new f…

Leading marine survey finds home at enlarged Plankton Lab

Added: 6 Oct 2024

Charities supporter the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Marine Biological Association (MBA) have…

Roche survey reveals global ignorance of HPV-cervical cancer link

Added: 8 Oct 2024

Around one in two respondents to a multi-country survey had little or no knowledge of the role of H…