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Green chemistry: The path to sustainable reagents in laboratories
Added: 31 Mar 2025
Green chemistry is revolutionising the way we approach sustainability in science. Rachel Sully expl…
EPO: UK patent activity increases for third year but lags behind lead nations
Added: 27 Mar 2025
UK-based innovators have increased their patent filing activity in Europe for the third year in suc…
Fermenting resistance
Added: 24 Mar 2025
A study revealed that cancer cells that developed a high fermentative capacity became resistant and…
Spelling it out
Added: 24 Mar 2025
For professionals, the rules for furnishing safe and efficient lab spaces may be second knowledge b…
Transplanted microbiota offers hope in fight against cotton disease threat
Added: 18 Mar 2025
A disease that has devastated cotton crops worldwide is being tackled by a novel method of plant tr…
Space scientist Aderin-Pocock to present bicentenary Ri Christmas Lectures
Added: 17 Mar 2025
Space scientist and broadcaster Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock will present this year’s Royal Institutio…
Breaking the code
Added: 17 Mar 2025
Lab notebooks with cryptic code go back a long way, says Matthew Partridge.
A shared responsibility
Added: 17 Mar 2025
As World Health Organisation funding comes under threat, Hogan Bassey offers a reminder of how coor…
Demand for EU critical chemicals law to ensure production of key molecules
Added: 13 Mar 2025
The EU must take action to protect production of nearly 20 key molecules deemed vital to industrial…
Design for lab-ing
Added: 10 Mar 2025
Product and marketing manager at leading lab furniture and equipment designer and manufacturer Tekn…
UK life science ‘needs 145k new hires by 2035 to maintain global lead’
Added: 9 Mar 2025
Biopharma and medical technology will drive a huge growth in demand for life sciences employees ove…
Starlab survey reveals widespread laboratory cost cuts in major European economies
Added: 9 Mar 2025
Laboratory supplier Starlab Group has released a survey containing evidence of widespread cuts in s…
Banking on precision
Added: 3 Mar 2025
Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…
Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer
Added: 1 Mar 2025
Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help unde…
Letters of mark
Added: 24 Feb 2025
Professional registration provides a clear indication of competency and access to valuable resource…
Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness
Added: 22 Feb 2025
UCL retinal specialists received special permission to use a novel therapy to restore some sight to…
Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects
Added: 22 Feb 2025
Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…
Time to launch bureaucracy 4.0
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Laboratories have embraced the digital age. Isn’t it time medical logistics did the same to save re…
Novel interrogation
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Innovative research is essential to the development of new treatments, says Philipp Koellinger, who…
