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Tree Bingo combines entertainment and enjoyment

Added: 25 Nov 2024

What is Tree Bingo?

Well sometimes a game does exactly what it states on the box; Tree Bingo is bi…

Get with the program

Added: 25 Nov 2024

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

Scientists beat chefs to the skinniest spaghetti

Added: 25 Nov 2024

UCL scientists have ousted a renowned Sardinian pasta maker’s record for the thinnest pasta ever cr…

Research suggests heart condition impacted by many rather than one single gene

Added: 25 Nov 2024

New research has called into question the nature of the genetic catalysts for a leading cause of he…

Lab Babble: A certain ratio

Added: 18 Nov 2024

And the award goes to... a man. Perhaps we need to look more critically at the gender imbalance amo…

Translating food safety from the laboratory to the factory floor

Added: 17 Nov 2024

Advances in the science of food safety might begin with the laboratory but much of the pressures fo…

‘University cash crisis will impact future of R&D’ warning

Added: 17 Nov 2024

Reports that nearly three in four universities are facing deficits in the next financial year raise…

Lab News roundup: Honours, market reports, location moves, collaborations and research

Added: 14 Nov 2024

Diagnexia’s new histopathology laboratory in Oxford will have capacity to process 400,000 pathology…

Transparency is key to tackling drugs shortages

Added: 11 Nov 2024

However fast labs develop new therapies, the complex route to patients exacerbates shortages that c…

Build the wall!

Added: 11 Nov 2024

Relax, Matthew Partridge hasn’t gone MAGA; his target’s lab chore dodgers.

NAMs offer means for UK lead in chemical testing, say Government advisors

Added: 11 Nov 2024

Britain should aim to establish itself as a global leader in testing by harnessing advanced technol…

Life science leaders warn medicine’s Budget windfall must be supported by talent drive

Added: 11 Nov 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget announcement of more than half a billion pounds-worth of investmen…

Budget delivers financial heft to Labour’s science R&D promises

Added: 3 Nov 2024

The Labour government’s first Budget appeared to confirm a commitment to life sciences and research…

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 …

Leukaemia research pioneers share £0.6 million fellowship funding

Added: 27 Oct 2024

Four female scientists leading innovation in cancer research have won this year’s John Goldman Fell…

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 …

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…

Lab News roundup: multimillion investments and an RF breakthrough

Added: 18 Oct 2024

The University of Warwick is to invest £700 million in its West Midlands campus as part of its Conn…