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Greener diagnostics: The sustainable revolution
Added: 17 Dec 2024
From eco-friendly materials to innovative technologies such as spectroscopy, molecular diagnostics …
Making tough choices digestible
Added: 16 Dec 2024
“To eat is to compete in an arms race,” says Dr Chris van Tulleken, whose thoughts on evangelising …
Biobanks: a vital investment in precision medicine
Added: 8 Dec 2024
Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…
Facing a fact-free diet
Added: 8 Dec 2024
Facts are the bedrock of science and news information. Declining belief in their value surrenders t…
Tree Bingo combines entertainment and enjoyment
Added: 25 Nov 2024
What is Tree Bingo?
Well sometimes a game does exactly what it states on the box; Tree Bingo is bi…
Get with the program
Added: 25 Nov 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …
Lab Babble: A certain ratio
Added: 18 Nov 2024
And the award goes to... a man. Perhaps we need to look more critically at the gender imbalance amo…
Translating food safety from the laboratory to the factory floor
Added: 17 Nov 2024
Advances in the science of food safety might begin with the laboratory but much of the pressures fo…
Transparency is key to tackling drugs shortages
Added: 11 Nov 2024
However fast labs develop new therapies, the complex route to patients exacerbates shortages that c…
Build the wall!
Added: 11 Nov 2024
Relax, Matthew Partridge hasn’t gone MAGA; his target’s lab chore dodgers.
European Laboratory Day: an era of transformation
Added: 5 Nov 2024
European Laboratory Day, celebrated on 5 November, celebrates the vital contributions of lab profes…
How inventory management can unlock capital for pharma firms
Added: 4 Nov 2024
Lack of investment can be an issue in the lab but, says Mohib Rahmani, there is much that pharmaceu…
Get with the program
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …
Stand by for the big freeze
Added: 26 Oct 2024
Crisp white snow, glaciers all around, icicles melting in the summer sun – it’s July in Britain 50 …
Lab innovations 2024: automation and productivity in the laboratory
Added: 22 Oct 2024
With Lab innovations 2024 fast approaching, Russell Lotinga of show exhibitor Festo, explains how a…
Fulfilling Biopharma’s needs using process Raman Spectroscopy
Added: 12 Oct 2024
Quality control is vital to biopharma workflows, explains Sudhir Dahal. Raman spectroscopy can play…
Fundamentally unintelligent
Added: 30 Sep 2024
AI didn’t invent job automation or fake images. Better to worry anyway about social media, urges Pr…
Combatting microplastics with microscopy
Added: 30 Sep 2024
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations…
Do research AI rules disadvantage non-native English scientists?
Added: 6 Sep 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …
The hydrodynamics lab pioneering offshore renewable energy innovation
Added: 4 Sep 2024
The University of Manchester’s new hydrodynamics lab simulates the complexities of the ocean and ca…
