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Lessons learnt from a zero-carbon laboratory
Added: 23 Oct 2020
Mathew Butler reviews the operation of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Sustainable Chemis…

Making it happen: young people aren’t just the leaders of tomorrow
Added: 23 Oct 2020
Freelance nextgen reporter, Amy Grace, interviews Mhairi McCann; one of the Women in Engineering So…

lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Stuck in the middle
Added: 23 Oct 2020
In sympathy with all those researchers out there trying to get the tough papers writer, Dr Matthew …

Career chances for technicians shouldn’t be a matter of luck
Added: 20 Oct 2020
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Robots support growth in Medical, Pharmaceutical and Lifesciences sectors
Added: 15 Oct 2020
Mechatronics solutions expert, Simon Jenkins, highlights just one of the areas where robots are now…

Reflections on the CRISPR journey from conception to Nobel Prize and beyond...
Added: 14 Oct 2020
Our very own CRISPR specialist, Dermot Martin, muses on this year’s historic decision to award the …

Fast-tracking nanovaccines to fight coronavirus
Added: 10 Sep 2020
Today, there are more than 150 COVID-19 vaccines in the race to mitigate the virus.1-3 Some of thes…

How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk
Added: 1 Sep 2020
2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China…

We need to talk about live wet-markets
Added: 6 Apr 2020
How do we make sure this doesn’t happen ever again? How do we reduce novel zoonotics in our species…

Getting into the lab, via the stomach
Added: 26 Jan 2020
Of all the incentives lab supply companies have in their arsenal – there is one guaranteed way they…

Money talks... and heals
Added: 25 Nov 2019
Beware the dreaded hyperbole. That is always in the forefront of my mind when writing for you. But …

Singing the praises of odd numbers
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Annoy peer reviewers and create an inclusive numerical policy? It’s a win win for Dr Matthew Partri…

The good, the bad and the brexit
Added: 16 Sep 2019
The new Government has been in place for only a few weeks now and in that time, we’ve already had a…

Celebrating the improbable
Added: 13 Sep 2019
Another year, another heart-warming evening commemorating the silly, unusual and often random side …

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.

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…