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Get with the program

November 25, 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of the cost of translation services. A more enlightened approach to the use of LLMs could help solve...

Lab Babble: A certain ratio

November 18, 2024
And the award goes to... a man. Perhaps we need to look more critically at the gender imbalance among scientific prize recipients, suggests Russ Swan.

Translating food safety from the laboratory to the factory floor

November 17, 2024
Advances in the science of food safety might begin with the laboratory but much of the pressures for improvement and greater efficiencies derive from industry and consumers.

Transparency is key to tackling drugs shortages

November 11, 2024
However fast labs develop new therapies, the complex route to patients exacerbates shortages that compromise health outcomes. Connecting quality, regulatory, and manufacturing data is key to improving supply chain agility,...

Build the wall!

November 11, 2024
Relax, Matthew Partridge hasn’t gone MAGA; his target’s lab chore dodgers.

European Laboratory Day: an era of transformation

November 5, 2024
European Laboratory Day, celebrated on 5 November, celebrates the vital contributions of lab professionals to healthcare and research. Dror Kolodkin-Gal, founder of image integrity software Proofig AI, explores how AI...

How inventory management can unlock capital for pharma firms

November 4, 2024
Lack of investment can be impact the lab but, says Mohib Rahmani, there is much that pharmaceutical firms can do to optimise their inventories and free up capital...

Global focus: the key to infectious disease control

October 31, 2024
President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, Professor Paul Ananth Tambyah explains to Rachel Sully the importance of recognising, declaring and responding to infectious diseases such as Mpox, and...

Get with the program

October 28, 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of the cost of translation services. A more enlightened approach to the use of LLMs could help solve...

Stand by for the big freeze

October 26, 2024
Crisp white snow, glaciers all around, icicles melting in the summer sun – it’s July in Britain 50 years from now, writes Professor Brian J Ford.

Lab innovations 2024: automation and productivity in the laboratory

October 22, 2024
With Lab innovations 2024 fast approaching, Russell Lotinga of show exhibitor Festo, explains how automation is boosting productivity in UK contract laboratories…

Fulfilling Biopharma’s needs using process Raman Spectroscopy

October 11, 2024
Quality control is vital to biopharma workflows, explains Sudhir Dahal. Raman spectroscopy can play a crucial role in maintaining product consistency and integrity…

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