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Game Theory: Doctor Livingston Jr jigsaws

June 5, 2023
Insight
They’ve seen many science games, but Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner can’t hide their enthusiasm for Doctor Livingston Jr. jigsaws.
Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Medical/Health, Physiology
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Evolving prostate cancer research with FFPE samples

May 29, 2023
Insight
Dr. Nallasivam Palanisamy of the Henry Ford Health System and Michigan State University and Dr. Han Wei of Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, who have been collaborating, together with their respective...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Cytology, Health/Diagnostics, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Oncology, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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When surface impressions are the ones that count

May 29, 2023
Insight
The surface quality of a product’s materials influences its performance. Optical profiling techniques can enhance measurement accuracy in the lab and improve R&D processes for manufacturers, explain Matt Parry and...
Materials
Comment And Analysis, Materials, Materials Science
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Leading ex-sample

May 22, 2023
Insight
Liverpool University spin-out ReNewVax’s goal of creating the first universal pneumococcus vaccine began with extensive library analysis and two decades of research by its parent institution, outlines Marie O’Brien.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Health, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Let’s get Ig-gy

May 22, 2023
Insight
Try as they might to resist temptation… when spring approaches, scientists have just one thing on their minds, reckons Russ Swan.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis
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Guestbook: Formula for our future

May 15, 2023
Insight
Efforts by the energy intensive chemicals industry to promote a greener future will impact greatly attempts being made in the wider world. That includes in the laboratory says the CBA’s...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Environment, Health & Safety, Materials, Policy
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The industrial lab: at line or end of line?

May 15, 2023
Insight
Sustainability, market pressures and tech innovation are impacting the chemicals and materials sectors. ‘Sweating the assets’ and maintaining compliance has consequences for the laboratory too, explains the Chemical Industries Association...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Energy, Health & Safety, Materials, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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An end to the guesswork

May 9, 2023
Insight
A chance request spurred a family firm to install a high-tech lab that has brought unprecedented accuracy to production on the factory floor, with benefits in time and resource as...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Chemistry, Interviews, Materials, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Telling it like it is

May 9, 2023
Insight
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
Insight
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
Insight
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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