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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…

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…

Fulfilling Biopharma’s needs using process Raman Spectroscopy

Added: 12 Oct 2024

Quality control is vital to biopharma workflows, explains Sudhir Dahal. Raman spectroscopy can play…

Roche survey reveals global ignorance of HPV-cervical cancer link

Added: 8 Oct 2024

Around one in two respondents to a multi-country survey had little or no knowledge of the role of H…

Uni-industry pairing to address UK lack of toxicology testing

Added: 6 Oct 2024

Kingston University is joining forces with an East Anglian based testing specialist to open a new f…

Cool roofs could have saved c250 heatwave deaths, claims UCL/Exeter study

Added: 1 Oct 2024

Nearly 250 lives could have been prevented during London’s record 2018 hot summer if the capital ha…

Fundamentally unintelligent

Added: 30 Sep 2024

AI didn’t invent job automation or fake images. Better to worry anyway about social media, urges Pr…

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…

BioGrad announces national expansion with opening of York site

Added: 22 Sep 2024

Laboratory testing specialist BioGrad Group has announced plans for a major site in York – the fift…