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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…
NAMs offer means for UK lead in chemical testing, say Government advisors
Added: 11 Nov 2024
Britain should aim to establish itself as a global leader in testing by harnessing advanced technol…
Data FOMO may undermine clinical trials’ ROI, Phesi warns
Added: 11 Nov 2024
‘FOMO’ (fear of missing out) may be partly to blame for an over-collection of data that has dogged …
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 …
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…
Aston AIME celebrates launch with collaborative science
Added: 22 Sep 2024
The new Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence has hosted its official academic launch at Aston Un…
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…
AI to help GPs identify those at high risk of heart-related death
Added: 1 Sep 2024
An AI tool that pinpoints hidden heart risk in patients could be rolled out for GPs to use within t…
Heriot-Watt project wins £0.75 mill for alternative to painful cancer biopsies
Added: 26 Aug 2024
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are developing a new method of identifying cancerous DNA whic…
Speedy separation offers tool for microplastics and cancer cell studies
Added: 17 Aug 2024
Researchers in Sweden have pinpointed a method to speed the separation of particles in fluids, prov…
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…
Blood thinner threatens to take the sting out of cobra’s deadly bite
Added: 22 Jul 2024
CRISPR gene editing technology has enabled scientists at the University of Sydney and Liverpool Sch…
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…
Vallance assumes key science ministerial role
Added: 7 Jul 2024
Former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has joined the newly elected Labour administra…
Machine learning offers means to raise accuracy of cancer analysis
Added: 11 Jun 2024
AI collaborators in Britain and the UK have developed a computer system that they say can spot canc…
