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‘Swifties’ nail 100,000 milestone

Added: 17 Aug 2024

A conservation app dedicated to mobilising citizen scientists to help protect Swift populations has…

Speedy separation offers tool for microplastics and cancer cell studies

Added: 17 Aug 2024

Researchers in Sweden have pinpointed a method to speed the separation of particles in fluids, prov…

Unveiling the ripple effect

Added: 12 Aug 2024

Dr Gen Li returns to the theme of how the war in Ukraine has impacted global clinical development a…

Focus on the foreign to life

Added: 12 Aug 2024

Xenobiotics – those chemical substances found within organisms but not naturally produced by them –…

PacBio-Singapore project to create largest SE Asian genome dataset

Added: 11 Aug 2024

Singapore’s National Precision Medicine (NPM) Programme and genomic sequencing leader PacBio have e…

Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine

Added: 11 Aug 2024

The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-me…

Lab Babble: Alphabetti spaghetti

Added: 6 Aug 2024

The acronymitis virus has reached all corners of science. Russ Swan senses an opportunity…

Scientists hijack brain parasite for new therapy delivery vehicle

Added: 3 Aug 2024

Harmful brain parasites could be effectively hijacked as vehicles for therapeutic treatment for neu…

Real time tracking could slash millions from bill for lost NHS lab samples

Added: 2 Aug 2024

Supermarket style product tracking piloted at a Leeds hospital could be used to cut the NHS’s mammo…

Shafted by progress

Added: 29 Jul 2024

There was little chance of Archimedes losing his screw; things are very different today, reflects M…

Nuclear arsenal

Added: 29 Jul 2024

Advances in benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance instrumentation have brought the benefits of NMR sp…

Baby camels identified as key factor in animal to human MERS virus transmission 

Added: 29 Jul 2024

Young camels have been identified as a significant contributor in exposing humans to the potentiall…

Research reveals misbehaving genes in healthy humans 

Added: 29 Jul 2024

So-called ‘gene misbehaviour’ within the bodies of healthy human beings is far more widespread than…

Past and present in synthesis

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Our guest speaker for the annual Laboratory News session at CHEMUK was Finlay Morrison. His well-re…

A matter of scale

Added: 22 Jul 2024

Funding support and infrastructure are needed to bring bio-based products and processes to market a…

PrISMa creators aim to bridge net zero innovation’s valley of death

Added: 22 Jul 2024

It’s the phrase that encapsulates the perennial challenge of transitioning a successful laboratory …

Freudenberg-NOK develops bio-EPDM

Surrey takes the p… in order to feed the world

Added: 22 Jul 2024

It sounds like the classic p… take but work is underway on a project to counter the world shortage …

RSB and Pirbright launch new biorisk professional registration scheme

Added: 13 Jul 2024

The Royal Society of Biology and the Pirbright Institute have launched a new professional registrat…

New lab... but is it operationally ready?

Added: 7 Jul 2024

Lab space may be in short supply but don't neglect any element of the moving in process, urges Tes …

Vallance assumes key science ministerial role

Added: 7 Jul 2024

Former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has joined the newly elected Labour administra…