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Keeping cleanroom contamination under control with good design

September 27, 2026
Insight
Cleanroom controls need to achieve more than initial compliance, says Phillip Godden. To be effective, you need to take a longer perspective… A surprising number of cleanrooms are designed to...
Life Sciences, Chemistry, Materials
contanimation control, Lab design, Regulation & compliance
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Game Theory: Finspan Sharks & Reefs Expansion

August 23, 2026
Insight
High marks for Finspan Sharks & Reefs Expansion from Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner. WHAT IS FINSPAN? In a previous column, we reviewed the superb Wingspan (and its expansions). Finspan...
Life Sciences
board games, marine ecology
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A COA is only as strong as its source-record trail

August 16, 2026
Insight
A certificate of analysis is often treated as the end of a quality check. A PDF arrives, the reported value looks acceptable, and the document is filed with the purchase...
Life Sciences, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Certification, Lab protocols, Regulatory, Transparency
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Cleanroom differential pressure: a small value with a big impact

August 16, 2026
Insight
Pressure differentials inside cleanrooms are not large, Sean Murphy explains, with most set between 5-15 Pascal. However, maintaining that differential is a critical part of the overall cleanroom contamination control...
Life Sciences, Chemistry, Materials
Cleanroom, Contamination control, Lab technology, Monitoring
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Bringing best value

August 8, 2026
Insight
Effective and affordable treatments are key to tackling both the UK’s burgeoning diabetes crisis and the financial challenges facing the NHS. However, the success of generics and biosimilars depends to...
Life Sciences
biosimilars, diabetes, generic medicines
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Improving data interpretation in healthcare

August 2, 2026
Insight
The sheer volume of data generated by artificial intelligence can be a deterrent to adoption, yet harnessing AI fully can overcome that problem and benefit complex areas of healthcare such...
Life Sciences
artificial intelligence, transplant immunology
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Rethinking healthcare data governance

July 20, 2026
Insight
The recent UK Biobank breach created alarm within a medical sector embracing data digitalisation. The answer, says Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, is to apply better controls. The recent UK Biobank data breach...
Life Sciences
data governance, health data
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Teaching the rules: Sample handling in class

July 5, 2026
Insight
Treat school laboratories seriously, they’re the ultimate stress test environment for products and procedures and for shaping behaviours, urges Isabel Murphy. Even lab managers and suppliers can learn something. From...
Life Sciences
laboratory education, Sample integrity
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Lab-or-a-tol-o-gy: Software, soft soap

June 29, 2026
Insight
Over promising systems sellers can be the bane of the science researcher’s life, admits Matthew Partridge. There is an English idiom, ‘call a spade a spade’ which if you’ve not...
Life Sciences
AI, ELN, laboratory informatics, LIMS
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Designing for results: How layout ensures accuracy

June 29, 2026
Insight
With the pressure to generate results, optimise workflows and meet deadlines, sample integrity is taken for granted… until something goes wrong. Yet what happens around the bench in terms of...
Life Sciences
laboratory design, Sample integrity
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