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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 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…

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…

Combatting microplastics with microscopy

Added: 30 Sep 2024

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

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…

Study suggests potential heatwave impact on epilepsy

Added: 8 Sep 2024

Heatwaves could be associated with an increase in abnormal brain activity among people with epileps…

The right moves

Added: 31 Aug 2024

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

Cold cure

Added: 19 Aug 2024

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

‘Swifties’ nail 100,000 milestone

Added: 17 Aug 2024

A conservation app dedicated to mobilising citizen scientists to help protect Swift populations has…

Speedy separation offers tool for microplastics and cancer cell studies

Added: 17 Aug 2024

Researchers in Sweden have pinpointed a method to speed the separation of particles in fluids, prov…

Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine

Added: 11 Aug 2024

The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-me…

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…

A matter of scale

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Funding support and infrastructure are needed to bring bio-based products and processes to market a…

PrISMa creators aim to bridge net zero innovation’s valley of death

Added: 22 Jul 2024

It’s the phrase that encapsulates the perennial challenge of transitioning a successful laboratory …

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 …

Floored science

Added: 10 Jun 2024

The lab is a key and growing component of the annual CHEMUK Expo. Managing director of show organis…

Seaweed-to-packaging spinout scoops £4million-plus private investment 

Added: 9 Jun 2024

Bath university spinout Kelpi has secured £4.35 million in funding from a slew of City firms to lau…

Future Labs Live 2024: Digital, automated, connected

Added: 4 Jun 2024

Basel braces for anything up to 3,000 innovators, industry leaders and practitioners attending the …

Biobased building materials may be less sustainable than concrete, study suggests

Added: 3 Jun 2024

Mycelium composites made from fungi and agricultural residue, can have a bigger environmental impac…

Lab Babble: Be damned and don’t publish

Added: 29 May 2024

Commercial priorities are killing the usefulness of web platforms and publishing, despairs Russ Swa…