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Registrations are open for November’s Lab Innovations

Added: 1 Sep 2021

Lab Innovations 2021, the UK’s only trade show for the laboratory industry, has opened visitor regi…

Eliminating food waste – now is the time for your FLW initiative

Added: 31 Aug 2021

The staggering statistics around food loss and waste (FLW), from field to consumer, highlight the n…

From Lab to market: Navigating venture capital in life sciences

Added: 31 Aug 2021

Venture capital (VC) is a vital form of funding for taking scientific ideas from lab to market, but…

Celebrating 50 years with the mother of 'ELISA'

Added: 27 Aug 2021

In an exclusive interview with Dermot Martin, Eva Engvall discusses the invention and evolution of …

Scientists get second opinion from AI on tell-tale heart

Added: 26 Aug 2021

The single biggest global cause of death is heart disease. Changes in the electrical signals associ…

3 Ingredients for Effective Pharmaceutical Cybersecurity

Added: 26 Aug 2021

The pharmaceutical industry faces growing pressure from cyber threats. Attacks on manufacturers and…

UK launches national antibody surveillance programme

Added: 25 Aug 2021

For the first time, UK Health Security Agency to launch UK-wide antibody surveillance programme for…

The one hundredth column from a heart-filled nerd

Added: 20 Aug 2021

Never doing anything by halves and much to the relief of friends, family, and this editor, Russ Swa…

Food or sex? Fruit flies give insight into decision-making

Added: 17 Aug 2021

Individuals are likely to prioritise food over sex after being deprived of both, according to resea…

Driving precision medicine into frontline healthcare

Added: 16 Aug 2021

Improved patient safety demands greater specificity to ensure therapeutic efficiency. Here, Tom Ren…

Study debunks myth that carnivores roam wild in absence of humans

Added: 13 Aug 2021

As people sheltered in place at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, sightings of wildlife in urban …

COVID-19 may impact fight-or-flight response in young adults

Added: 9 Aug 2021

New collaborative research using microneurography suggests COVID-19 may alter the fight-or-flight r…

Get ready for Lab Awards 2021

Added: 9 Aug 2021

Brand new in 2021, the Lab Awards will be taking place at the ICC in Birmingham on the evening of N…

Glycoproteomics: a new era in biomarkers

Added: 6 Aug 2021

Klaus Lindpaintner takes us on a journey of discovery, automation and scale-up that has applied AI …

All eyes on Lab Innovations 2021

Added: 5 Aug 2021

At Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry, professionals, s…

Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson's disease

Added: 2 Aug 2021

Researchers have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berrie…

Are all mammals just copy cats? Felines to play a key role in human genetics

Added: 30 Jul 2021

The feline genome is ordered similarly to humans according to one veterinary medicine expert. So, c…

The mind-boggling complexity of scientific waste

Added: 30 Jul 2021

Why is scientific waste disposal complicated? Dr Matthew Partridge muses on that gap in student and…

Gene variant discovery could help treat Alzheimer's and other degenerative brain disorders

Added: 29 Jul 2021

New research suggests early changes in brain metabolism may explain the neurodegeneration suffered …

Shipping biologicals - the journey of human tissue samples

Added: 29 Jul 2021

Medical research relies on routine and specialist biological samples which must be handled with gre…