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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…

Sample preparation of environmental samples for trace metal analysis
Added: 13 Aug 2024
A technical note is available from Analytix that highlights using a Milestone Ethos UP microwave di…

Environmental sample extraction – improve quality and throughput
Added: 13 Aug 2024
Prior to analysis, the extraction of environmental samples such as soils requires solvent extractio…

Scientists hijack brain parasite for new therapy delivery vehicle
Added: 3 Aug 2024
Harmful brain parasites could be effectively hijacked as vehicles for therapeutic treatment for neu…

Real time tracking could slash millions from bill for lost NHS lab samples
Added: 2 Aug 2024
Supermarket style product tracking piloted at a Leeds hospital could be used to cut the NHS’s mammo…

Smart spoon ‘restores’ dementia sufferers’ taste buds
Added: 29 Jul 2024
Loss of taste is one of the many symptoms of dementia and one that not only impacts sufferers’ qual…

Pistoia initiative seeks to counter slow take-up of animal free testing
Added: 13 Jul 2024
More than three quarters of R&D respondents to a new survey by the global Pistoia Alliance say they…

Frogs’ secret defence leaves would-be predators stuck for answers
Added: 13 Jul 2024
Notorious for their ability to produce defensive toxins, frogs can also employ another, less well-k…

No weekend City breaks with AI warns Harari
Added: 1 Jul 2024
‘Pulling the plug’ on AI development would be no more possible than preventing the emergence of oxy…

New chemosensor offers chance for battery free remote lactic testing
Added: 24 Jun 2024
Lactic acid testing for healthcare and in professional sports could be rendered cheaper and more ef…

Bruntwood scheme promises top level support to life science innovators
Added: 3 Jun 2024
Bruntwood SciTech has launched a new programme with significant government funding to provide suppo…

Plummeting SME financing threatens UK llfe science, warns report
Added: 13 May 2024
SME financing for the UK medicines pipeline plunged 43% between 2020 and 2022, suggests the Medicin…

Fewer than one in three experts prepared for AI challenge, suggests Pistoia
Added: 13 May 2024
Less than one third of life science experts polled in a Pistoia Alliance survey say they are coping…

Innovate UK grants £1million to gene therapy trio
Added: 6 May 2024
Innovate UK has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to a trio of organisations working together…

‘Moon lander’ molecule caught on the move
Added: 28 Apr 2024
A combination of spectroscopy and computer simulations have revealed how pyramidal molecules are ab…

Cell conversion technique ‘offers boost for personalised treatments’
Added: 28 Apr 2024
Prospects for personalised treatment for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases could have been boost…

Global forum’s cash challenge to boost cardiovascular funding
Added: 7 Apr 2024
The Global Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum (GCRFF), has announced a new cash prize aimed at i…

Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic
Added: 24 Mar 2024
A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style h…

Aston and allies open doctoral centre for next generation greenhouse gas leaders
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Aston University is to host a doctoral training centre to train a new generation of scientists to h…

Scots biotech labs receive vital scale-up boost
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Scottish bio-based business will be able to access a state-of-the-art fermenter vital to develop pr…