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Are you ready for show time?
Added: 9 Sep 2019
Once again we are delighted to have partnered with the Lab Innovations show – and we want you to be…

Ghost of science future
Added: 2 Sep 2019
Well, here we are. Four months from the completion of the second decade in the third millennium.

Going viral
Added: 28 Aug 2019
Foodborne viruses present a major challenge to the safety of a range of foods including ready–to–ea…

You are never too successful for lunch
Added: 12 Aug 2019
Everyone knows that the fulcrum around which a successful lab swings is, of course, lunch. But what…

Advancing a technical career
Added: 12 Aug 2019
Is your team motivated, professional, adaptable, connected, and competent?

Brexit: No-deal is a bad deal for UK science
Added: 9 Aug 2019
In a video livestreamed from his desk at Downing Street on Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson a…

Game Theory: Linkage
Added: 5 Aug 2019
Games have never been more popular and in their column the newest recruits to the Lab News team, Dr…

Reproducibility crisis
Added: 23 Jul 2019
Inadequate reporting, variability in reagents and the pressure to publish all contribute to the rep…

The greenest lab equipment?
Added: 3 Jul 2019
I love my job. The main reason is that I help labs save vast amounts of money whilst fighting clima…

Glorious celebration of imposters
Added: 17 Jun 2019
Ever wondered, despite all your scientific expertise, if you’ll be uncovered as a fraud? Don’t worr…

Harnessing regional strengths
Added: 17 Jun 2019
From distinctive strengths in transport innovation in the West Midlands to leadership in the life s…

Innovation in data collection
Added: 5 Jun 2019
There are many examples of product enhancements using improved design and or different materials to…

Brexit bomb
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 May 2019
In the shifting sands of Brexit, there are some things of which we can be sure. And one of them fee…

Human microbiome
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 May 2019
There is so much to be discovered about the human microbiome, but what we do know is pretty amazing…

Better tattoo be safe
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2019
As hipster cool reaches ‘peak-ink’ the scientific literature is awash with studies on the safety of…

Moral morsels
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Apr 2019
It is a troubling business. The simple act of lifting a morsel to your mouth is now fraught with di…

Put that snack down you fools!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2019
For all those that partake in the occasional lab-based munch, Dr Matthew Partridge has some gentle …

Spending a penny to battle pandemics
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Mar 2019
As the seat-belt light stubbornly refuses to go out, and the three G&Ts sunk even before the pilot …

A word on Watson…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2019
That a scientist who uncovered the very structure of the code of life should be called out on racis…