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Hurricane hunters

Added: 29 May 2024

Cruising thousands of feet above the Arctic through a raging storm isn’t the most congenial researc…

Six degrees of separation

Added: 20 May 2024

Labs play an essential role in advancing sustainability in the wider world but they need to tackle …

Once more, with feeling

Added: 20 May 2024

AI has proven its worth as a research tool and now it’s time to tap its potential for clinical tria…

Faster to market

Added: 14 May 2024

AI capable of refining content and analysing data offers incremental gains in life sciences, argues…

Fewer than one in three experts prepared for AI challenge, suggests Pistoia 

Added: 13 May 2024

Less than one third of life science experts polled in a Pistoia Alliance survey say they are coping…

Look to your assets

Added: 15 Apr 2024

Waste reduction or recycling is usually the focus for driving greener practice in the lab but what …

Playing it cool

Added: 8 Apr 2024

In the lab, the need for effective temperature control is a given. And as demands have increased, s…

drugs pills pharma

Report warns of crisis as Europe’s generic medicines reduced

Added: 7 Apr 2024

A recently published study that Europe faces a crisis stemming from a substantial decline in the av…

Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Bodge it, Badger

Added: 2 Apr 2024

Given the realities of working life, a bodge job can beat the company’s purchasing protocols, advis…

Science in the round

Added: 2 Apr 2024

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) remains one of Europe’s largest multidisciplin…

Scaling the digital mountain

Added: 24 Mar 2024

Hub locations are as much a feature in healthcare as for life sciences in general. Ursula Costa out…

Identity crisis?

Added: 18 Mar 2024

When the Royal Society of Chemistry began to tackle the barriers to disabled entrants to the profes…

Aston and allies open doctoral centre for next generation greenhouse gas leaders

Added: 18 Mar 2024

Aston University is to host a doctoral training centre to train a new generation of scientists to h…

Million dollar beep

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Digital hackers may be the bigger threat but don’t overlook the need for safeguards against more co…

Report underlines economic returns on public investment in science

Added: 11 Feb 2024

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council-commissioned research estimates that the org…

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 …

On the front line

Added: 22 Jan 2024

Increasing digitalisation creates a weapon for hackers, criminals and hostile states to employ far …

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…

Nanoscience pioneer McKendry wins £350k AF Harvey prize

Added: 14 Jan 2024

Infectious disease surveillance pioneer Rachel McKendry has won the Institution of Engineering and …