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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 –…

Nuclear arsenal
Added: 29 Jul 2024
Advances in benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance instrumentation have brought the benefits of NMR sp…

Past and present in synthesis
Added: 22 Jul 2024
Our guest speaker for the annual Laboratory News session at CHEMUK was Finlay Morrison. His well-re…

Faster to market
Added: 10 Jun 2024
AI capable of refining content and analysing data offers incremental gains in life sciences, argues…

Once more, with feeling
Added: 20 May 2024
AI has proven its worth as a research tool and now it’s time to tap its potential for clinical tria…

Faster to market
Added: 14 May 2024
AI capable of refining content and analysing data offers incremental gains in life sciences, argues…

Purpose before profit: Antonia Seymour, IOPP
Added: 28 Apr 2024
IOPP’s Antonia Seymour outlines why the publisher has joined forces with AIP Publishing and the Ame…

Look to your assets
Added: 15 Apr 2024
Waste reduction or recycling is usually the focus for driving greener practice in the lab but what …

Honing in on the chemical lab
Added: 15 Apr 2024
This year’s version of the CHEMUK show is the largest ever but it also has an enhanced focus on the…

Playing it cool
Added: 8 Apr 2024
In the lab, the need for effective temperature control is a given. And as demands have increased, s…

Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Bodge it, Badger
Added: 2 Apr 2024
Given the realities of working life, a bodge job can beat the company’s purchasing protocols, advis…

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…

Identity crisis?
Added: 18 Mar 2024
When the Royal Society of Chemistry began to tackle the barriers to disabled entrants to the profes…

Translating to liquid assets
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Biotech ValiRx’s new spin-out prompted its evolution from a virtual operation to encompass wet labs…

A vision beyond gold
Added: 11 Mar 2024
Little more than a year since its win at the Lab Awards, Cytecom has secured an NIHCR contract to t…

Unravelling the secrets of RNA
Added: 4 Mar 2024
Advancing scientific knowledge of plant structures not only improves crop yields but also helps tre…

Stat… fact… friction?
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Do the figures speak for themselves? Rarely, warns Russ Swan.

Turning down the heat
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Selecting the right cold storage for academic laboratories is a challenge, acknowledges Rob Fowler,…