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Coolly compliant

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Upgrading and replacing assets such as refrigeration equipment requires careful attention not only …

How automated tools can speed toxicology tests 

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Toxicology assessments can be time consuming, but digital repositories and tools can aid the proces…

At the heart of things

Added: 20 Jan 2025

London’s role as a lab science location has been limited by shortage of sites but evidence suggests…

The write stuff

Added: 20 Jan 2025

Procrastination gets you far, says Matthew Partridge. All the way to deadline time.

Lab Babble: Citizen riff

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Russ Swan does his bit for volunteer science.

Financing smarter laboratories

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Everyone understands the importance of greater automation within the laboratory. Meeting that need,…

Focus through time

Added: 6 Jan 2025

How had Robert Hooke’s engravings attained detail beyond the apparent powers of his microscope? Pro…

Promotion: Less shout… more ‘about’

Added: 6 Jan 2025

Sponsored Content offers advertisers a subtler alternative to the hard sell – a chance to tell the …

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…