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Doppelganger effect
Added: 26 Sep 2022
Ethical and medical challenges combined with technological advances and improved data capabilities …

Jacobs to support refurbishment of UK nuclear research laboratories
Added: 26 Sep 2022
US technical consultancy leaders Jacobs has won a £10 million contract to support National Nuclear …

Supporting innovation in life sciences
Added: 20 Sep 2022
The life sciences’ response to Covid-19 has spurred intense interest worldwide in British R&D, says…

Revised UKRI award increases PhD minimum by £2k
Added: 5 Sep 2022
PhD students will benefit from a 10% increase in the previously announced UK Research and Innovatio…

Liquid platinum catalyst offers sustainable solution for industry
Added: 27 Aug 2022
Australian scientists say they have found a way to employ platinum as a potentially scalable indust…

Avoiding common pitfalls deploying customised fume cupboards
Added: 23 Aug 2022
Fume cupboards are vital in an industrial setting but they need to be tailored carefully to the ind…

Healthcare must learn from experience to combat global challenges for patients’ sake
Added: 22 Aug 2022
With nearly one in 20 of global drug trials affected by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it’s essential…

Disruptors: how Cloud tech is reshaping the laboratory
Added: 22 Aug 2022
Technological transformation is driving change in the modern lab as Cloud-based systems, automation…
Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report
Added: 20 Aug 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …

Sustainability may impact water security more than economics alone
Added: 20 Aug 2022
Equality of access among households to water supplies that are clean and plentiful may owe as much …

UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films
Added: 13 Aug 2022
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a ma…

MDC and ZEISS join forces to catapult complex medicine development
Added: 13 Aug 2022
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) the not-for-profit organisation established by Innovate UK, has …

Warning that 1 in 3 adults will lack higher Covid antibody levels by next vaccination round
Added: 13 Aug 2022
A continued fall in the number of UK adults with higher level Covid antibody levels makes it likely…

Fera Science launches £1million laboratory for insect bioconversion in York
Added: 5 Aug 2022
Agri-food and environmental science services Fera Science Ltd has opened a £1 million specialist in…

Oxford spin-out MiroBio bought by biopharma leader for £0.3 billion
Added: 5 Aug 2022
US biopharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has sealed an agreement to purchase the Oxford Universit…

How to get lab equipment ‘field’ ready
Added: 31 Jul 2022
Having gathered evidence from at least two field researchers, Dr Matthew Partridge discusses the pe…
Life sciences leap forward as AlphaFold shares the ‘protein universe’
Added: 29 Jul 2022
AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence programme created by AI group Deep Mind has released its pre…

Creating places for people to drive life science
Added: 24 Jul 2022
While technology and collaboration has made it possible for many to consider giving up their commut…

Younger men should drink one third of women’s recommended alcohol intake, warns study
Added: 24 Jul 2022
New advice on the health dangers of alcohol challenges popular assumptions as to which groups are u…

How to implement data-driven R&D
Added: 18 Jul 2022
While helping his colleague Peter Rhodes prepare for a talk hosted by Lab News at CHEMUK 2022, Max …