August 3, 2024

Harmful brain parasites could be effectively hijacked as vehicles for therapeutic treatment for neurological diseases, suggests new research.

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biology, Biotech, Cell Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Parasitology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Policy, Proteomics & Genomics

July 29, 2024

There was little chance of Archimedes losing his screw; things are very different today, reflects Matthew Partridge.

Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials

Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Environment, Health & Safety, Materials, Policy

July 29, 2024

Advances in benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance instrumentation have brought the benefits of NMR spectroscopy without the associated time and money costs, explains Jürgen Kolz – providing a useful weapon against...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Atmospheric Chemistry, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy

July 22, 2024

Our guest speaker for the annual Laboratory News session at CHEMUK was Finlay Morrison. His well-received insight, into the role of archive data transformation in unlocking the potential of AI-driven...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Pharmaceutical, Policy

July 22, 2024

Funding support and infrastructure are needed to bring bio-based products and processes to market and meet net zero targets, urges Lynsey Dunbar. Otherwise, start-ups will be looking elsewhere.

Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering

Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Health & Safety, Policy

July 21, 2024

It sounds like the classic p… take but work is underway on a project to counter the world shortage of phosphorus by extracting it instead from human urine.

Chemistry, Earth & Environmental

Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Food & Bev, Policy

July 21, 2024

CRISPR gene editing technology has enabled scientists at the University of Sydney and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to identify a popular blood thinner as a potential cheaper antidote to...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Cell Biology, Drug Discovery, Haematology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Proteomics & Genomics, Zoology

July 21, 2024

It’s the phrase that encapsulates the perennial challenge of transitioning a successful laboratory project into a workable industrial venture.

Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering

Atmospheric Sciences, Cell Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Environmental, Green Chemistry, Health & Safety, Materials, Policy

July 13, 2024

More than three quarters of R&D respondents to a new survey by the global Pistoia Alliance say they do not use in vitro cell-based alternatives to animal testing, it has...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Cell Biology, Drug Discovery, Forensics, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical

July 12, 2024

Research and application scientist at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre Dr Pietro Sacchi has won the British Association for Crystal Growth (BACG) Young Scientists Award for his work on the...

Chemistry, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology