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Which three extinct animals would you invite to dinner?

May 24, 2022
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Considering de-extinction, iterative evolution, re-evolution and the Elvis taxon, Russ Swan muses on the potential of inviting an elemoth for an evening meal before opening a historic portal to his...
Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Life Sciences, Paleobiology, Proteomics & Genomics, Zoology
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Identifying and reducing day-to-day stress in laboratories

May 19, 2022
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A busy laboratory can be a stressful working environment, especially if there is a backlog of samples or the team is working on a tight timescale. Nadine Bellamy-Thomas considers the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Physics, Policy
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Winning collaboration for LIMS implementation

May 11, 2022
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Under pressure to safeguard its incoming student body from COVID-19, The University of Nottingham needed a controlled integration and implementation of a new medical lab information management system to support...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pathology, Pharmaceutical, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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Industry 4.0 for UK chem labs

May 10, 2022
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In advance of her talk as part of the Lab News hosted session at CHEMUK 2022, Iwona Kandpal looks at driving innovation in UK chemical labs in small and medium...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Analytical Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Computational Chemistry, Engineering, Environment, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
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When more knowledge does not equal more complexity

May 9, 2022
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In a world saturated with information, Dr Diane Turner discusses how more in-depth learning about application methods and approaches can often help simplify the use of analytical instrumentation, rather than...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Bioinformatics, Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Risk, rewards, and regulations for gene editing

May 3, 2022
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UK leading authority on the human genome, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge speaks with Dermot Martin on the long-term outcomes and resulting regulation guidance following the birth of the twin girls whose...
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Health, Interviews, Medical/Health, Physiology, Policy, Proteomics & Genomics
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Improving contract lab efficiency and productivity through automation

April 29, 2022
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As demand for outsourced microbiological testing to assure the food value chain increases, contract laboratories look to expert service providers delivering carefully considered integration of strategic automation technologies to relieve...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Cytology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Food & Bev, Food Science, Forensics, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Organic Chemistry, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Proteomics & Genomics
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The voice of the empowered patient is on the rise

April 22, 2022
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Industry experts agree that patient-centricity should be the overriding aim of global life science R&D and healthcare ecosystems in the wake of pandemic and huge technology-driven transformation. The Pistoia Alliance...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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New antibiotic assessment mechanism to procure drugs to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

April 20, 2022
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One of the UK’s leading infectious disease biotech companies has lauded the conclusions of a project by NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Comment And Analysis, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Virology
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It’s all just a matter of perception

April 4, 2022
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In anticipation of the announcement of this year's competition winners, we asked previous winners a bit more about themselves and the process that led to their Olympus Image of the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Cell Biology, Cytology, Developmental Biology, Food & Bev, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Pathology, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physiology, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology, Zoology
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A researcher’s guide to intermittent research

April 1, 2022
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Under the continued cosh of COVID, Dr Matthew Partridge considers the impact of constant interruptions and how an ongoing reality that randomly, yet regularly, prevents researchers from being able to...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics
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Game review: Healing Blade Defenders of Soma

April 1, 2022
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Details Age 14+1-2 players45 minutesNerdcore Medical Traffic Lights Educational use – 5/6Scientific accuracy – 5/6Enjoyment – 6/6
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