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Teaching the rules: Sample handling in class

July 5, 2026
Insight
Treat school laboratories seriously, they’re the ultimate stress test environment for products and procedures and for shaping behaviours, urges Isabel Murphy. Even lab managers and suppliers can learn something. From...
Life Sciences
laboratory education, Sample integrity
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Breaking up prolonged sitting linked to lower cancer death risk

July 5, 2026
News
Breaking up long periods of sitting with light physical activity could reduce the risk of cancer death, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Glasgow. Published...
Life Sciences
heart disease, Oncology
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Study identifies best practice for whale shark tagging

July 5, 2026
News
An international team led by scientists at the Marine Biological Association (MBA) has published new guidance aimed at improving the way researchers track whale sharks, helping strengthen conservation efforts for...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
conservation, Marine Biology
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Agreement moves Paralympian McFall closer to historic space mission

July 5, 2026
News
A new agreement between the UK Government and commercial space company Vast has moved UK astronaut John McFall a step closer to becoming the first person with a physical disability...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Physiology, Prosthetics, Space science
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Latest Lab Talk News in Brief: System overhaul, development, investment, appointments

July 1, 2026
News
Clinisys has completed deployment of its WinPath laboratory information management system at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, replacing a legacy pathology system that had been in use for more than 30...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Appointments, Digitalisation, Investment, Lab build
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Lab-or-a-tol-o-gy: Software, soft soap

June 29, 2026
Insight
Over promising systems sellers can be the bane of the science researcher’s life, admits Matthew Partridge. There is an English idiom, ‘call a spade a spade’ which if you’ve not...
Life Sciences
AI, ELN, laboratory informatics, LIMS
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Designing for results: How layout ensures accuracy

June 29, 2026
Insight
With the pressure to generate results, optimise workflows and meet deadlines, sample integrity is taken for granted… until something goes wrong. Yet what happens around the bench in terms of...
Life Sciences
laboratory design, Sample integrity
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International team to investigate origins of evolutionary innovation

June 28, 2026
News
A University of Aberdeen researcher has secured a prestigious international grant to investigate how entirely new traits evolve in animals. Dr Victoria Sleight is part of an international collaboration awarded...
Life Sciences, Earth & Environmental
Biology, Genetics, Zoology
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Gut monitoring device secures £1.6m for clinical studies

June 28, 2026
News
A Midlands medical technology company has secured £1.6m to evaluate a device designed to monitor gut health by analysing bowel sounds, with the aim of providing clinicians with objective data...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, diagnostics
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A disparity born of oversight: recognising women in science

June 23, 2026
Insight
Dr Bernice Wright pays tribute to some of the most impactful women in the life sciences, and the vital role they continue to play … Women have long shaped the...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Comment, Nobel prize, Women in science
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