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Game Theory: Ecosystem

August 8, 2022
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Games are always a fun way to spend time. Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner, reviewed Ecosystem to find out if it is any good.
Earth & Environmental
Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental
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Creating a Successful Lab Buildout Plan

August 7, 2022
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Creating a detailed plan is a vital part of making lab build projects run smoothly with minimal pitfalls, says Emily Newton. The goal is to take the building from an...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Comment And Analysis, Engineering, Environment, Health & Safety
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Young people still choose BMW over biotech

July 31, 2022
Insight
Starlab International recently carried out a survey about the perception of laboratory careers post-pandemic among 2,000 young people aged 16 to 19 across the UK and Germany.
Life Sciences
Biotech, Comment And Analysis
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How to get lab equipment ‘field’ ready

July 31, 2022
Insight
Having gathered evidence from at least two field researchers, Dr Matthew Partridge discusses the perils of science in the great outdoors and how to protect your precious lab kit from...
Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Health & Safety, Policy
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Creating places for people to drive life science

July 24, 2022
Insight
While technology and collaboration has made it possible for many to consider giving up their commute entirely, Jane Kennedy looks at those whose only option is to work out of...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Environment, Health & Safety, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Policy
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Non-consensual citizen science?

July 24, 2022
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Russ Swan ponders the non-consensual extraction of biological information from public social images in the emerging discipline of ‘imageomics’.
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biology, Comment And Analysis
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How to implement data-driven R&D

July 17, 2022
Insight
While helping his colleague Peter Rhodes prepare for a talk hosted by Lab News at CHEMUK 2022, Max Petersen delved deeper into why chemical and materials companies seeking to drive...
Chemistry
Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Computational Chemistry, Policy
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eDNA and metabarcoding for monitoring biodiversity

July 17, 2022
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As the impact of anthropogenic change on environmental biodiversity becomes an increasingly pressing topic of research, Lab News paraphrases a presentation given by Professor Simon Creer which outlines practical methods...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Genetics
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Setting up a philanthropic genomic testing marketplace

July 10, 2022
Insight
Mike Hudson tells the story of how one not-for-profit has helped UK Covid testing laboratories and generated £2.5 million for good causes over the past two years. Now, the team...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Health, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Portable spectroscopy: Taking the spectrometer to the sample

July 10, 2022
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There are times when it just isn’t efficient enough to send samples to the lab for testing. Richard Crocombe outlines advances in portable spectroscopy and which instruments to use for...
Chemistry
Comment And Analysis, Pharmaceutical
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Turning drought into opportunity

June 29, 2022
Insight
Mineral physics can help provide a solution to water shortage and its applications may not be limited only to our own world, suggests Sabrina Lautin.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environment, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Oceanography
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Understanding viral morphologies with next-generation cryo-EM

June 26, 2022
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With diverse morphologies, our understanding of Archaeal viruses remains scant. Here, Prof Edward H Egelman discusses how his team applied advances in cryo-electron microscopy to uncover the atomic structure and...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pharmaceutical
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