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British Heart Foundation Heart Hero Awards highlight breakthrough pioneers

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Cardiovascular research pioneer professor Adam Greenstein has been awarded the prestigious Research…

Airflow controller and monitors with integrated gas sensor promote lab safety

Added: 3 Dec 2024

Fume cupboard manufacturers now have access to a new airflow controller and monitors with integrate…

Cell detectives offer clues to counter rheumatoid arthritis flare-ups 

Added: 1 Dec 2024

The body’s ‘cell detectives’ could be employed as biomarkers for one of the world’s most widespread…

Research suggests heart condition impacted by many rather than one single gene

Added: 25 Nov 2024

New research has called into question the nature of the genetic catalysts for a leading cause of he…

Bacteria point the way for sustainable space power

Added: 18 Nov 2024

An international research project involving scientists from Heriot-Watt University has found inspir…

Lab News roundup: Honours, market reports, location moves, collaborations and research

Added: 14 Nov 2024

Diagnexia’s new histopathology laboratory in Oxford will have capacity to process 400,000 pathology…

Life science leaders warn medicine’s Budget windfall must be supported by talent drive

Added: 11 Nov 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget announcement of more than half a billion pounds-worth of investmen…

Leukaemia research pioneers share £0.6 million fellowship funding

Added: 27 Oct 2024

Four female scientists leading innovation in cancer research have won this year’s John Goldman Fell…

Birmingham cell science initiative promises cross-application testing

Added: 27 Oct 2024

University of Birmingham Enterprise announces the launch of a new division, Biocell Energetics, to …

Swallow research produces Eppendorf win for Seeholzer

Added: 20 Oct 2024

American Laura Seeholzer is this year’s winner of the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology, i…

Lab News roundup: multimillion investments and an RF breakthrough

Added: 18 Oct 2024

The University of Warwick is to invest £700 million in its West Midlands campus as part of its Conn…

Lab Innovations exhibitors to share on-stand expertise

Added: 13 Oct 2024

More than 4,000 attendees are expected to produce its largest-ever turnout for this year’s Lab Inno…

Roche survey reveals global ignorance of HPV-cervical cancer link

Added: 8 Oct 2024

Around one in two respondents to a multi-country survey had little or no knowledge of the role of H…

Uni-industry pairing to address UK lack of toxicology testing

Added: 6 Oct 2024

Kingston University is joining forces with an East Anglian based testing specialist to open a new f…

Leading marine survey finds home at enlarged Plankton Lab

Added: 6 Oct 2024

Charities supporter the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Marine Biological Association (MBA) have…

Laboratory contamination: The final defence mechanism

Europe to mark lab science’s key role again with dedicated day

Added: 30 Sep 2024

European Laboratory Day returns on 5 November to focus on the contribution of laboratory medicine p…

Replacing ultra-processed foods in diet associated with reduction in type 2 diabetes risk

Added: 15 Sep 2024

A new study of the links between processed foods and diabetes risk suggests considerable variation,…

Alzheimer’s Society pledges £9 million for three dementia training centres

Added: 15 Sep 2024

The Alzheimer’s Society is investing in a multimillion pound project to tackle the talent drain of …

Young innovator turns to 3D to scale up stroke recovery tool

Added: 8 Sep 2024

Innovate UK’s 2023 Young Innovators award winner is using 3D printing to put his stroke recovery th…

Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research

Added: 8 Sep 2024

The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has b…