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Mimicry with consistency

Added: 5 Dec 2022

Research into neurodegenerative conditions can be hampered by difficulty accessing scalable, transl…

Image integrity in academic papers

Added: 28 Nov 2022

Academic papers are the most important medium for introducing results to the scientific community, …

Lab Babble: The Modern Prometheus

Added: 28 Nov 2022

Not content with streamlining all scientific research, Russ Swan now offers a blueprint for human e…

The final frontier

Added: 20 Nov 2022

Sustainability goals in science must include one untilrecently overlooked issue: lab space and the …

Dystopia calling…

Added: 14 Nov 2022

Dr Matthew Partridge has seen the 2050 future and it works, even if we no longer understand why.

View from the business end

Added: 7 Nov 2022

Tim Doggett explains the importance of sustainability for modern laboratories in terms of the wider…

Lab 2050: Four pillars of transformation

Added: 7 Nov 2022

To prepare for the laboratory of the future we must ask, decades ahead, how it will look? Pistoia A…

Lab Awards finalists named

Added: 26 Oct 2022

Finalists have been announced for the Lab Awards – hosted by Lab Innovations in partnership with La…

How can AI advance laboratory research?

Added: 21 Oct 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making waves across industries, and laboratory research may be the …

I’m reviewing the simulations…

Added: 12 Sep 2022

It may not be robots that researchers need to fear. Dr Matthew Partridge suggests, however, that th…

How to implement data-driven R&D

Added: 18 Jul 2022

While helping his colleague Peter Rhodes prepare for a talk hosted by Lab News at CHEMUK 2022, Max …

Setting up a philanthropic genomic testing marketplace

Added: 10 Jul 2022

Mike Hudson tells the story of how one not-for-profit has helped UK Covid testing laboratories and …

Turning drought into opportunity

Added: 30 Jun 2022

Mineral physics can help provide a solution to water shortage and its applications may not be limit…

Five-letter words for research: ‘trial’ and ‘error’

Added: 31 May 2022

You now have six attempts to guess the craze that has hooked Dr Matthew Partridge as he envisages a…

Identifying and reducing day-to-day stress in laboratories

Added: 19 May 2022

A busy laboratory can be a stressful working environment, especially if there is a backlog of sampl…

Industry 4.0 for UK chem labs

Added: 10 May 2022

In advance of her talk as part of the Lab News hosted session at CHEMUK 2022, Iwona Kandpal looks a…

When more knowledge does not equal more complexity

Added: 9 May 2022

In a world saturated with information, Dr Diane Turner discusses how more in-depth learning about a…

Improving contract lab efficiency and productivity through automation

Added: 29 Apr 2022

As demand for outsourced microbiological testing to assure the food value chain increases, contract…

A researcher’s guide to intermittent research

Added: 1 Apr 2022

Under the continued cosh of COVID, Dr Matthew Partridge considers the impact of constant interrupti…

It’s cool here in the future!

Added: 29 Mar 2022

Finding an excuse to watch Star Trek and call it research, Russ Swan compares science fiction with …