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Greener diagnostics: The sustainable revolution
Added: 17 Dec 2024
From eco-friendly materials to innovative technologies such as spectroscopy, molecular diagnostics …
Get with the program
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …
Combatting microplastics with microscopy
Added: 30 Sep 2024
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations…
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…
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…
(Almost) one hundred and eighty!
Added: 24 Mar 2024
Time was when three scientific disciplines sufficed, says Russ Swan. They’ve multiplied, to say the…
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 …
Building scientific communities
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in h…
Lab Innovations 2023: sustainable solvent selection
Added: 9 Oct 2023
While much discussion around sustainability has focused on the energy efficiency of instruments and…
Van Leeuwenhoek's rich legacy endures three centuries on
Added: 24 Aug 2023
He may have been a late starter in the field with which his name is indelibly associated but Antony…
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 …
Hyper-space
Added: 16 Jul 2023
There’s a temptation in space science to bill every act of participation as a success, whatever the…
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…
Time to get VOCal
Added: 3 Jul 2023
We rightly pay attention to CO₂ and methane, says Chang Foo, but more consideration is needed of th…
When surface impressions are the ones that count
Added: 29 May 2023
The surface quality of a product’s materials influences its performance. Optical profiling techniqu…
Guestbook: Formula for our future
Added: 15 May 2023
Efforts by the energy intensive chemicals industry to promote a greener future will impact greatly …
The industrial lab: at line or end of line?
Added: 15 May 2023
Sustainability, market pressures and tech innovation are impacting the chemicals and materials sect…
Scientific nesting places
Added: 6 Feb 2023
If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…
The science of art
Added: 12 Dec 2022
The Courtauld Institute of Art’s expertise in preserving art works derives in part from its use of …
