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First female Chief Scientific Adviser Dame Angela set to assume role in weeks
Added: 23 Feb 2023
Newly-appointed Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) Professor Dame Angela McLean will take o…

A coordinated advance
Added: 20 Feb 2023
Deep virology knowledge, urgency and partnership form the crucible for rapid antibody development t…

Liverpool industry and academia join forces with new solution to fight hospital infections
Added: 17 Dec 2022
Antimicrobial coatings will be installed on a trial basis for touchscreens and door handles in the …

The final frontier
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Sustainability goals in science must include one untilrecently overlooked issue: lab space and the …

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…

Setting up a philanthropic genomic testing marketplace
Added: 10 Jul 2022
Mike Hudson tells the story of how one not-for-profit has helped UK Covid testing laboratories and …

Time for masks not musical chairs, health secretary told
Added: 9 Jul 2022
Incoming health secretary Steve Barclay has been urged to reintroduce the wearing of facemasks and …

How does automation improve lab testing?
Added: 13 Jun 2022
Laboratory results can be instrumental in telling scientists and health care professionals about pe…

Winning collaboration for LIMS implementation
Added: 11 May 2022
Under pressure to safeguard its incoming student body from COVID-19, The University of Nottingham n…

Rising costs and material shortages pile pressure on UK’s over-stretched laboratories
Added: 2 Mar 2022
A stark warning has been issued about the challenges facing under-pressure laboratories in the UK a…

Accelerating R&D innovation in 2022 and beyond
Added: 3 Jan 2022
Accounting for pandemic drivers and a general acceptance that a return to pre-pandemic business hab…

The promise of COVID-19 surveillance through wastewater testing
Added: 22 Dec 2021
Pandemic modelling data can be gathered through mass testing by monitoring viral RNA levels in wast…

Shaking up the lab of the future
Added: 15 Dec 2021
From testing and drug discovery to vaccine rollout, collaboration and open innovation have been vit…

Catherine Noakes and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)
Added: 14 Dec 2021
As part of a collaborative group of six British expert scientists, Catherine Noakes will join Jonat…

Sharon Peacock and the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)
Added: 14 Dec 2021
As part of our 2021 Royal Institutions Christmas Lecture coverage, we ask Sharon Peacock how discov…

Going viral: How Covid changed science forever
Added: 14 Dec 2021
In the 2021 Royal Institutions Christmas Lectures, Jonathan Van-Tam will be joined by expert Britis…

Good research has never been more important
Added: 3 Dec 2021
With scientific matters enjoying the media spotlight, Dr Frances Downey argues that the scientific …

Monitoring: The key to vaccine production and distribution safety
Added: 2 Dec 2021
Manufacturing of any vaccine is a complex process that requires consistent monitoring to ensure eff…

World’s leading academic journals join pledge to fight bias in publishing
Added: 25 Nov 2021
Global giants Springer Nature, De Gruyter and Taylor & Francis join Wiley, Elsevier and SAGE Publis…

Lab Awards 2021 Winners
Added: 3 Nov 2021
Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural Lab Awards 2021!
The awards were brought to you by…