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Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Telling it like it is

May 9, 2023
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How to temper the urge to make projects succeed at the expense of sustainability? It’s all in the name, suggests Matthew Partridge.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Environment, Health & Safety, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Culture guffaws: Latin liberties and trends in taxonomy

May 7, 2023
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Latin may have been central to scientific taxonomy for centuries but it’s adapted well to modern influences with often amusing results, demonstrates Professor Brian J Ford...
Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Zoology
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Health in the round

May 2, 2023
Insight
In the second of our features on key talks from the recent Lab Innovations’ My Green Lab/Laboratory News seminar series, we report on Andrew King of AstraZeneca’s contribution.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environment, Health & Safety, Policy
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Wading with dinosaurs

April 24, 2023
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As the Natural History Museum hosts the first European display of Patagotitan, Brian J Ford resurfaces to float his theory, first published a decade ago in Laboratory News, that the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Forensics
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Synthetic affinity reagents: new possibilities for diagnostics

April 24, 2023
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Fast and effective diagnostic testing is key to disease management but a challenge for antibody-based approaches. Animal/cell-free detection reagents present an opportunity for solutions at mass scale, explains Francesco Canfarotta.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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CHEMUK 2023 Preview: Get in the zone

April 20, 2023
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CHEMUK is back with hundreds of exhibitors and speakers and this year for the first time it will have a new theme devoted to all things lab in a chemicals...
Chemistry
Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Policy
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Shared excellence

April 17, 2023
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The FAIRE grants scheme provides opportunity for researchers in 80 countries to publish their work and access one of the greatest structural science databases, says Suzanna Ward.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Collaboration on life sciences – do we need the UK?

April 17, 2023
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Undoubtedly, yes, says Jan Wauters. The benefits to Britain and Europe are too great, he argues, and without that partnership, advances in science such as those achieved with the Covid-19...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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‘Life in the clouds’

April 3, 2023
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The growth of collaborative work and reliance on contract research organisations plus unprecedented levels of data handling makes the value of Cloud service obvious, agrees Ronen Vengosh. Just don’t overlook...
Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Life Sciences, Policy
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Let’s talk about sex, maybe

March 29, 2023
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As the Natural History Museum hosts the first European display of Patagotitan, Brian J Ford revisits his theory, first published a decade ago in Laboratory News, that the clue to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Forensics, Paleobiology, Physics, Zoology
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Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Not wanted – bot with GSOH

March 27, 2023
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Reinforced learning won’t make ChatGPT a lab competitor for Matthew Partridge. Not until it masters a decent joke.
Chemistry
Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Keener on greener

March 27, 2023
Insight
Sustainability was the core of Lab Innovations’ MyGreenLab/Laboratory News seminar series. In the first of a series looking back at some key talks, we report on Thermo Fisher Scientific’s contribution.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health & Safety
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