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Keep it clean
Added: 5 Feb 2024
Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…
Starry, starry night
Added: 5 Feb 2024
After just three years, the Lab Awards has come of age with a standalone event, a record number of …
UK continues to lead Europe for life science and biotech investment
Added: 4 Feb 2024
Venture capital investment in UK life sciences and biotech continues to outperform the rest of Euro…
Anglo-Norwegian study casts light on treatment resistant bacteria
Added: 4 Feb 2024
A study comparing the UK and Norway over two decades, has concluded that antibiotic use may drive a…
AMSBIO to make double offer award for 2024
Added: 28 Jan 2024
AMSBIO has doubled its travel grant award scheme to offer two bursaries to young scientists attendi…
The changing diagnostic testing paradigm
Added: 22 Jan 2024
Despite laboratories’ longstanding reliance upon microbial culture for infectious disease identific…
First ever Blavatnik award wins for Heriot-Watt and Innes centre as nine share honours
Added: 21 Jan 2024
Nine scientists have shared the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK and with it a …
Bath hosts new water-based public health initiative
Added: 21 Jan 2024
The University of Bath is to host the newest Research England Centre of Excellence, with £13 millio…
Bacteriophage therapies: exciting but not new
Added: 18 Jan 2024
Recent interest in this area of antibacterial treatments neglects the fact it has a substantial his…
Looking under the hood of AI
Added: 16 Jan 2024
Royal Institution lecturer Professor Mike Wooldridge expands on the scientific and ethical dimensio…
Fit for purpose
Added: 15 Jan 2024
There’s nothing arcane about furniture modularity, in fact it’s intrinsic to plans for creating a s…
Hearing’s the cue for wearing
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Feedback matters for any medical technology developer. When it comes to wearable devices, listening…
Scents-ibly sustainable
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Rather than plundering scarce natural resources, Glasgow University scientists Hua Wang and Sofia S…
Covid blow to Turing’s first year but positives too
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Britain’s replacement to the Erasmus Programme scholarships attained less than 60% of its target nu…
Modern microscopy identifies Dutch master’s £175k handiwork
Added: 21 Dec 2023
A microscope discovered by chance in a house clearance has been authenticated as the work of ‘the f…
Rudolph the blue-eyed reindeer, he can see the lichen glows…
Added: 18 Dec 2023
Rudolph’s red nose may be Christmas fiction but reindeer really do appear to possess another colour…
Testing giant invests millions in connected lab
Added: 18 Dec 2023
Global testing, inspection and certification services leader Element Materials Technology has commi…
Treforest explosion victim named as Celtic Food Labs chief
Added: 18 Dec 2023
The sole victim of the major explosion on a South Wales industrial estate has been identified as th…
Therapy ‘alters immune cells’ to fight unresponsive tumours
Added: 10 Dec 2023
Finnish researchers say they have discovered how a new cancer therapy can alter the function of imm…
Turning down the heat
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Selecting the right cold storage for academic laboratories is a challenge, acknowledges Rob Fowler,…