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But what kind? Today’s clinical chemistry laboratories play a critical role in the provision of patient care: fast and accurate pathology testing is vital. But which type of blood samples...

One size doesn’t fit all

July 20, 2017

Mike Clayton considers how the current systems and processes in the clinical laboratory aren’t necessarily up to the task of helping to meet demands and explores ways of working to...

Stopping it all going wrong

July 18, 2017

Safety assessments for medical devices typically focus on potential hazards occurring during use from electrical or mechanical aspects of the design. But, asks Richard Poate, how do we prevent malfunction?

The last unit standing

July 13, 2017

The kilogram is the last artefact based SI unit – something that has taken the best part of 20 years to change. Dr Ian Robinson takes us on a journey...

Bringing the Sun down to Earth

July 10, 2017

Materials, Physics & Engineering

Technical difficulties, experimental dead-ends and eye-watering development costs – yet the gargantuan challenge of taming nuclear fusion power is certainly within reach says Dr Andrew Kirk as he talks us...

Astronomy, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, In Depth, Materials, Materials Science, Physics

SHERLOCK joins the hunt for rogue DNA and RNA

July 6, 2017

CRISPR – and the significant legal battles surrounding it – seem to be in the news more and more recently. Now researchers, with CRISPR as a building block, have found...

Playing fast and dim

July 4, 2017

As the super-resolution microscopy revolution continues, CMOS cameras are attracting a lot of attention… but to really progress the field, we need to extract more information from available photons.

Collaborate to accumulate

July 3, 2017

Pharmaceutical research and development has historically been shrouded in mystery, a secretive activity conducted behind closed doors to protect commercial advantage. But, as big data continues to transform the industry...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology

A radical solution

June 27, 2017

Understanding reactive oxygen species is vital for tackling many diseases – but you need to catch them first. Here Dr Kalina Ranguelova talks us through this challenge and a possible...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology

The what and the where

June 20, 2017

DNA sequencing is one thing, but mapping that sequence to the chromosome is quite another. Here Dr Denis Larkin tells us why mapping complete animal genomes has just got a...

Credit where it’s due

June 16, 2017

You might not know it, but the government is falling over itself to give you money in the form of R&D tax credits… Tax expert Steven Sacks tells us what...

Building a way to work smarter

June 16, 2017

At its latest Science Insight event, lab building contractor Willmott Dixon invited leading industry figureheads to discuss how research bodies and universities can ‘work smarter’ to attract all-important private investment...