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Scaling the digital mountain

Added: 24 Mar 2024

Hub locations are as much a feature in healthcare as for life sciences in general. Ursula Costa out…

Identity crisis?

Added: 18 Mar 2024

When the Royal Society of Chemistry began to tackle the barriers to disabled entrants to the profes…

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 …

On the front line

Added: 22 Jan 2024

Increasing digitalisation creates a weapon for hackers, criminals and hostile states to employ far …

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…

Lab Innovations 2023: sustainable solvent selection

Added: 9 Oct 2023

While much discussion around sustainability has focused on the energy efficiency of instruments and…

Getting drastic on plastic

Added: 25 Sep 2023

Our third feature on the Lab innovations My Green Lab/Laboratory News-curated sessions details Labc…

A lighter approach

Added: 18 Sep 2023

The drive to achieve sustainable laboratories affects all areas of operation. After the more obviou…

Informed consent: Maximising compliance and minimising risk

Added: 12 Sep 2023

While the principle of participant consent is better appreciated in clinical research today than in…

Water, the source of (lab) life

Added: 11 Sep 2023

When it comes to laboratory liquid, there’s just nothing that can top the peerless H20, argues Matt…

Game Theory: Ocean Pods

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Leicestershire-based Molinarius Games has a water focus. So how does its Ocean Pods board game meas…

Cycling to zero

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Images of workplace pollution and waste usually focus on heavy industry but ignore the sizeable con…

Look beyond the Horizon

Added: 3 Aug 2023

While many scientists are keen to see the UK back in the Horizon Europe programme, Professor Brian …

Ditch the manual

Added: 16 Jul 2023

Digitalisation and automation are about people as much as technology, emphasises Divya Vijay Prathe…

Hyper-space

Added: 16 Jul 2023

There’s a temptation in space science to bill every act of participation as a success, whatever the…

Lab Babble: Today’s fact, tomorrow’s retract

Added: 10 Jul 2023

You can withdraw a discredited paper, but the long tail of citations lingers on and on, cautions Ru…

Sponsored Feature: Global leader LTE Scientific celebrates 75 years of excellence

Added: 7 Jul 2023

LTE Scientific, a global leader in the design, manufacture, and supply of laboratory, scientific an…

Sponsored Feature: Culturing Innovation with Don Whitley Scientific

Added: 6 Jul 2023

‘Culturing innovation’ is the message being shared by Don Whitley Scientific (DWS), a company proud…