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Novel interrogation

Added: 17 Feb 2025

Innovative research is essential to the development of new treatments, says Philipp Koellinger, who…

New facial detection system claims 10 times better image resolution

Added: 16 Feb 2025

Creators of a newly developed detection system say it provides accurate human facial detection over…

Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse

Added: 14 Feb 2025

They might be the stuff of horror movies but Egyptian mummies seem to have lasted the course where …

The road to eliminating cervical cancer

Added: 10 Feb 2025

January marked cervical cancer awareness month; it’s a reminder, says Paul Holmes, that more must b…

Tell it to the spin doctor

Added: 10 Feb 2025

Despite being an internationally renowned centre of academic excellence, the UK is struggling to co…

Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope

Added: 9 Feb 2025

Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million …

Alga ‘superfood’ comes with scaling up challenges, say scientists

Added: 7 Feb 2025

A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultura…

AstraZeneca’s Speke U-turn deals blow to Government’s life sciences ambition

Added: 3 Feb 2025

AstraZeneca’s shock reversal of its plans to expand vaccine manufacturing at itsSpeke plant on Mers…

The Future of Lab Informatics

Added: 30 Jan 2025

What will 2025 bring in terms of lab informatics? How will advanced technologies drive new discover…

Liverpool team’s novel material promises boost to IoT storage capabilities

Added: 29 Jan 2025

University of Liverpool scientists have developed a novel material they claim may enable internet o…

Seven CERSI centres launched to speed regulatory innovation in UK medicine

Added: 28 Jan 2025

Innovate UK has announced seven Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSIs…

Global survey reveals trust in scientists maintained

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Results from a vast new global survey suggest that trust in scientists remains relatively high acro…

Breast cancer tops clinical studies for fourth year as overall trial attrition rates rise

Added: 21 Jan 2025

Breast cancer continues to be the world’s most studied disease in clinical trials, topping all cate…

At the heart of things

Added: 20 Jan 2025

London’s role as a lab science location has been limited by shortage of sites but evidence suggests…

The write stuff

Added: 20 Jan 2025

Procrastination gets you far, says Matthew Partridge. All the way to deadline time.

Hydrogen hub invests £3million in groundbreaking net zero projects

Added: 20 Jan 2025

Funding valued at £3 million is to be shared among 10 research projects that aim to develop technol…

Lab Babble: Citizen riff

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Russ Swan does his bit for volunteer science.

Financing smarter laboratories

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Everyone understands the importance of greater automation within the laboratory. Meeting that need,…

Horizon based scheme invests €3.2 million in boosting Europe’s quantum research

Added: 13 Jan 2025

A four year project intended to boost Europe’s role in quantum research has secured €3.2 million fr…

Strategy launched to futureproof UK role in materials innovation

Added: 13 Jan 2025

The long-awaited National Materials Innovation Strategy has launched with the claim that a committe…