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Global focus: the key to infectious disease control

Added: 31 Oct 2024

President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, Professor Paul Ananth Tambyah expla…

Combating microplastics

Added: 28 Oct 2024

Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations…

Get with the program

Added: 28 Oct 2024

Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

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…

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…

Laboratory contamination: The final defence mechanism

Europe to mark lab science’s key role again with dedicated day

Added: 30 Sep 2024

European Laboratory Day returns on 5 November to focus on the contribution of laboratory medicine p…

Aston AIME celebrates launch with collaborative science

Added: 22 Sep 2024

The new Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence has hosted its official academic launch at Aston Un…

Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research

Added: 8 Sep 2024

The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has b…

The right moves

Added: 31 Aug 2024

Finding lab spaces is difficult but there’s more to consider after you secure one. Switching sites …

Game Theory: More or Less: Science & Nature Edition

Added: 19 Aug 2024

More or Less: Science & Nature Edition scores high on accuracy and fun.

Cold cure

Added: 19 Aug 2024

Power-intensive equipment such as fridges and freezers significantly impact energy conservation in …

Sample preparation of environmental samples for trace metal analysis

Added: 13 Aug 2024

A technical note is available from Analytix that highlights using a Milestone Ethos UP microwave di…

Environmental sample extraction – improve quality and throughput

Added: 13 Aug 2024

Prior to analysis, the extraction of environmental samples such as soils requires solvent extractio…

Unveiling the ripple effect

Added: 12 Aug 2024

Dr Gen Li returns to the theme of how the war in Ukraine has impacted global clinical development a…

Focus on the foreign to life

Added: 12 Aug 2024

Xenobiotics – those chemical substances found within organisms but not naturally produced by them –…

Lab Babble: Alphabetti spaghetti

Added: 6 Aug 2024

The acronymitis virus has reached all corners of science. Russ Swan senses an opportunity…

The evolution of CRISPR cell line technology

Added: 6 Aug 2024

CRISPR technology’s initial applications were primarily focused on targeted genome editing, but its…

Shafted by progress

Added: 29 Jul 2024

There was little chance of Archimedes losing his screw; things are very different today, reflects M…

Past and present in synthesis

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Our guest speaker for the annual Laboratory News session at CHEMUK was Finlay Morrison. His well-re…

Freudenberg-NOK develops bio-EPDM

Surrey takes the p… in order to feed the world

Added: 22 Jul 2024

It sounds like the classic p… take but work is underway on a project to counter the world shortage …