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E. coli K-12 turns 100 this year
Added: 17 May 2022
While not your most obvious candidate for centenary celebrations, Brittany Niccum explains why we s…
Rise of the nanopores for DNA sequencing
Added: 29 Apr 2022
Dreamed up while driving, Deamer’s biomimetic nanopores took DNA sequencing by storm. Now, Dermot M…
Personalised medicine demands diversity in clinical trials
Added: 23 Feb 2022
Equity requires us to recognise and celebrate our differences, especially when it comes to health. …
Diagnosing exotic animals
Added: 13 Jan 2022
From one of the UK's leading veterinary diagnostic laboratories specialising in an array of exotic …
Picodroplet microfluidics - specialist chemicals for single cell analysis
Added: 10 Jan 2022
Picodroplet microfluidics is used to isolate single cells for high-throughput single cell analysis.…
Going viral: How Covid changed science forever
Added: 14 Dec 2021
In the 2021 Royal Institutions Christmas Lectures, Jonathan Van-Tam will be joined by expert Britis…
Gesture control for lab robots
Added: 14 Dec 2021
Lab environments differ from factory floors. Robotics expert, Stephen Guy, explores how close human…
The future’s bright, the future’s artificial
Added: 25 Nov 2021
As clinical and adjacent staff face overwhelming demands, Cari-Anne Quinn looks at the benefits of …
Manufacture your own DNA... the easy way
Added: 26 Oct 2021
In this over-burdened global market, many laboratories may be struggling to access a reliable suppl…
IoT across the pharmaceutical supply chain
Added: 16 Sep 2021
Following a challenging period of pharmaceutical supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic, E…
Microbial therapeutics: the new substitute for antibiotics
Added: 10 Sep 2021
Currently expanding at a staggering rate, the global microbial therapeutic products market is expec…
Glycoproteomics: a new era in biomarkers
Added: 6 Aug 2021
Klaus Lindpaintner takes us on a journey of discovery, automation and scale-up that has applied AI …
Shipping biologicals - the journey of human tissue samples
Added: 29 Jul 2021
Medical research relies on routine and specialist biological samples which must be handled with gre…
Making polymers perform – a research and technical transfer story
Added: 23 Jul 2021
How do you set up and grow a new science-based technology company? Here, we uncover how Dr Don Well…
A CRISPECTOR calls with fresh insight to gene editing errors
Added: 5 Jul 2021
An Israeli research team claims new software can detect unintended consequences of gene editing. He…
Can immune cell-based therapies become mainstream in oncology?
Added: 20 May 2021
Can gene editing technology help transition cell-based therapies to solid tumours? Here, Jonathan F…
Microbial lipoxygenases: a next target against antibiotic resistance?
Added: 15 Mar 2021
Russian researchers Georgy Kurakin, Anna Samoukina and Nadezhda Potapova use bioinformatics to unco…
Laboratory Management: Monitoring the cold chain
Added: 5 Mar 2021
With many COVID vaccines relying on ultra-low temperature storage, Matt Feeny explains why and how …
Unleashing the power of digital image analysis
Added: 1 Mar 2021
The practice of image analysis has been evolving for years, but the UK’s lockdown has hit fast-forw…
How Are Mobile Apps Improving Diagnosis?
Added: 28 Jan 2021
People frequently use mobile apps in their personal and work lives, letting those applications give…
