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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.
Get with the program
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …
The right moves
Added: 31 Aug 2024
Finding lab spaces is difficult but there’s more to consider after you secure one. Switching sites …
Game Theory: More or Less: Science & Nature Edition
Added: 19 Aug 2024
More or Less: Science & Nature Edition scores high on accuracy and fun.
Cold cure
Added: 19 Aug 2024
Power-intensive equipment such as fridges and freezers significantly impact energy conservation in …
Unveiling the ripple effect
Added: 12 Aug 2024
Dr Gen Li returns to the theme of how the war in Ukraine has impacted global clinical development a…
Focus on the foreign to life
Added: 12 Aug 2024
Xenobiotics – those chemical substances found within organisms but not naturally produced by them –…
Lab Babble: Alphabetti spaghetti
Added: 6 Aug 2024
The acronymitis virus has reached all corners of science. Russ Swan senses an opportunity…
The evolution of CRISPR cell line technology
Added: 6 Aug 2024
CRISPR technology’s initial applications were primarily focused on targeted genome editing, but its…
Shafted by progress
Added: 29 Jul 2024
There was little chance of Archimedes losing his screw; things are very different today, reflects M…
Past and present in synthesis
Added: 22 Jul 2024
Our guest speaker for the annual Laboratory News session at CHEMUK was Finlay Morrison. His well-re…
Future Labs Live 2024: Digital, automated, connected
Added: 4 Jun 2024
Basel braces for anything up to 3,000 innovators, industry leaders and practitioners attending the …
Lab Babble: Be damned and don’t publish
Added: 29 May 2024
Commercial priorities are killing the usefulness of web platforms and publishing, despairs Russ Swa…
Six degrees of separation
Added: 20 May 2024
Labs play an essential role in advancing sustainability in the wider world but they need to tackle …
Once more, with feeling
Added: 20 May 2024
AI has proven its worth as a research tool and now it’s time to tap its potential for clinical tria…
Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Greet with scepticism
Added: 14 May 2024
AI isn’t going anywhere, says Matthew Partridge, so let’s stop worrying and think more about how to…
Faster to market
Added: 14 May 2024
AI capable of refining content and analysing data offers incremental gains in life sciences, argues…
