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Farm to gutter: Genomic surveillance to track AMR
Added: 4 Mar 2024
Governments are waking up to the dangers presented by antimicrobial resistance but the focus on cli…

Stat… fact… friction?
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Do the figures speak for themselves? Rarely, warns Russ Swan.

Million dollar beep
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Digital hackers may be the bigger threat but don’t overlook the need for safeguards against more co…

Keep it clean
Added: 5 Feb 2024
Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…

Starry, starry night
Added: 5 Feb 2024
After just three years, the Lab Awards has come of age with a standalone event, a record number of …

A global leg-up
Added: 29 Jan 2024
Returning to the theme of sustainable reuse, Colin Shandley offers a reminder that the effect goes …

Where the action is
Added: 29 Jan 2024
As demand for lab space increasingly outstrips supply, alternatives are being sought to science par…

On the front line
Added: 22 Jan 2024
Increasing digitalisation creates a weapon for hackers, criminals and hostile states to employ far …

Bacteriophage therapies: exciting but not new
Added: 18 Jan 2024
Recent interest in this area of antibacterial treatments neglects the fact it has a substantial his…

Fit for purpose
Added: 15 Jan 2024
There’s nothing arcane about furniture modularity, in fact it’s intrinsic to plans for creating a s…

Hearing’s the cue for wearing
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Feedback matters for any medical technology developer. When it comes to wearable devices, listening…

Scents-ibly sustainable
Added: 8 Jan 2024
Rather than plundering scarce natural resources, Glasgow University scientists Hua Wang and Sofia S…

Community helps overcome challenges of disability in science
Added: 7 Dec 2023
Chantelle Minchin was forced by illness to drop out of her previous university course and decided t…

Turning down the heat
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Selecting the right cold storage for academic laboratories is a challenge, acknowledges Rob Fowler,…

Game Theory: Viral
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Turner and Robinson embrace their dark side in Viral to play the bad guys.

One indivisible truth?
Added: 27 Nov 2023
The European Medicines Agency’s vision of a single source of truth for clinical trial information f…

Shooting the lab
Added: 20 Nov 2023
If a picture tells a thousand words, a short video can do still more in the social media age. Autho…

Lab Babble: Swan’s Goosey gander
Added: 20 Nov 2023
Success is never guaranteed, we need to reward doggedness and chance, Russ Swan reminds us.

Sound of the City
Added: 14 Nov 2023
Government hopes to drive UK growth through the life sciences depend upon commercial as well as pub…

Breaking down a breakup
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The seas around Florida provided the opportunity to analyse the movement of the Earth’s crust durin…