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Fermenting resistance
Added: 24 Mar 2025
A study revealed that cancer cells that developed a high fermentative capacity became resistant and…

Breaking the code
Added: 17 Mar 2025
Lab notebooks with cryptic code go back a long way, says Matthew Partridge.

A shared responsibility
Added: 17 Mar 2025
As World Health Organisation funding comes under threat, Hogan Bassey offers a reminder of how coor…

Design for lab-ing
Added: 10 Mar 2025
Product and marketing manager at leading lab furniture and equipment designer and manufacturer Tekn…

Time to launch bureaucracy 4.0
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Laboratories have embraced the digital age. Isn’t it time medical logistics did the same to save re…

Novel interrogation
Added: 17 Feb 2025
Innovative research is essential to the development of new treatments, says Philipp Koellinger, who…

The road to eliminating cervical cancer
Added: 10 Feb 2025
January marked cervical cancer awareness month; it’s a reminder, says Paul Holmes, that more must b…

Tell it to the spin doctor
Added: 10 Feb 2025
Despite being an internationally renowned centre of academic excellence, the UK is struggling to co…

Coolly compliant
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Upgrading and replacing assets such as refrigeration equipment requires careful attention not only …

At the heart of things
Added: 20 Jan 2025
London’s role as a lab science location has been limited by shortage of sites but evidence suggests…

Biobanks: a vital investment in precision medicine
Added: 8 Dec 2024
Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…

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…

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.

How inventory management can unlock capital for pharma firms
Added: 4 Nov 2024
Lack of investment can be an issue in the lab but, says Mohib Rahmani, there is much that pharmaceu…

Get with the program
Added: 28 Oct 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

Fulfilling Biopharma’s needs using process Raman Spectroscopy
Added: 12 Oct 2024
Quality control is vital to biopharma workflows, explains Sudhir Dahal. Raman spectroscopy can play…

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 –…