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Community helps overcome challenges of disability in science

December 7, 2023
Chantelle Minchin was forced by illness to drop out of her previous university course and decided to pursue a career instead in chemistry. In this account by the Royal Society...

Turning down the heat

December 4, 2023
Selecting the right cold storage for academic laboratories is a challenge, acknowledges Rob Fowler, who explains how the University of Sussex has transformed its cold storage capabilities with an economic...

Game Theory: Viral

November 27, 2023
Turner and Robinson embrace their dark side in Viral to play the bad guys.

One indivisible truth?

November 27, 2023
The European Medicines Agency’s vision of a single source of truth for clinical trial information forces a major shift in how companies collect and store trial data and documents, explain...

Shooting the lab

November 20, 2023
If a picture tells a thousand words, a short video can do still more in the social media age. Author Lauren Murphy shares tips from her new book to inspire...

Sound of the City

November 14, 2023
Government hopes to drive UK growth through the life sciences depend upon commercial as well as public sector support. So how does the UK BioIndustry Association, which reports each quarter...

Breaking down a breakup

November 6, 2023
The seas around Florida provided the opportunity to analyse the movement of the Earth’s crust during the events that saw the breakup of Pangaea, explains Sabrina Reichert.

Building scientific communities

November 6, 2023
The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in how social media and other platforms can build networks that increase rather than restrict opportunities for...

Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Drilling down – or boring?

October 30, 2023
If you find a subject dull, time to shoot the messenger, says Matthew Partridge.

Walking the talk

October 30, 2023
It’s easy to sign up to greener practice in principle but how do life sciences firms prove they deliver? Jeffrey Whitford, Vice President of Sustainability & Social Business Innovation at...

Quantum of challenge

October 16, 2023
Its market value will soon be measured in billions, yet quantum computing has yet to reach a marketable state and don’t expect it to replace classic computers, says Scott Jordan....

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