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Liquid platinum catalyst offers sustainable solution for industry

August 26, 2022
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Australian scientists say they have found a way to employ platinum as a potentially scalable industrial catalyst, by avoiding the financial and environmental cost of using the metal in its...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
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Synthetic polymers offer means to bypass gene editing for biocatalysis

August 19, 2022
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Scientists believe they have found a way to improve the efficiency of biocatalysis by avoiding the costs and time involved in gene editing methods.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Genetics, Materials Science, Microbiology, Pharmaceutical
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Leading chemical and utility firms join RSC polymer sustainability task force

July 2, 2022
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The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced four leading industry recruits have joined its Sustainable Polymers in Liquid Formulation (PLFs) task force.
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REF results hammer home the importance of UK university-business collaboration

June 1, 2022
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The results of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) identify ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ research across the UK. Indeed, 41% of submissions were judged to be world-leading, and 43% as...
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Five-letter words for research: ‘trial’ and ‘error’

May 31, 2022
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You now have six attempts to guess the craze that has hooked Dr Matthew Partridge as he envisages a research learning tool that returns experimental results as side-by-side, colour coded...
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Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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How to minimise the risk of cross-contamination in laboratories

May 26, 2022
Feature
Cross-contamination is a major concern for any laboratory and can lead to false and inaccurate results. Andrew Powers discusses how to mitigate the risk of potential time and resource losses...
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Identifying and reducing day-to-day stress in laboratories

May 19, 2022
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A busy laboratory can be a stressful working environment, especially if there is a backlog of samples or the team is working on a tight timescale. Nadine Bellamy-Thomas considers the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Physics, Policy
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Reducing microbiological growth in your lab

May 12, 2022
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Microbes are invisible to the naked eye. Every laboratory user carries a microbiome load of c.100 trillion microbes and sheds 10gms of skin each day. Under optimum conditions, a microbial...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
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Lab furniture design for health and hygiene

May 10, 2022
Feature
Unlike cleanrooms, many laboratories aren't ISO 14644 registered when it comes to air particle count. Sue Springett discusses why any organisation that purports to foster a hygienic culture should be...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Materials, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotech, Pathology, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physics, Policy, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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When more knowledge does not equal more complexity

May 9, 2022
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In a world saturated with information, Dr Diane Turner discusses how more in-depth learning about application methods and approaches can often help simplify the use of analytical instrumentation, rather than...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Bioinformatics, Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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