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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 …

Bacteriophage therapies: exciting but not new

Added: 18 Jan 2024

Recent interest in this area of antibacterial treatments neglects the fact it has a substantial his…

Hearing’s the cue for wearing

Added: 8 Jan 2024

Feedback matters for any medical technology developer. When it comes to wearable devices, listening…

Turning down the heat

Added: 4 Dec 2023

Selecting the right cold storage for academic laboratories is a challenge, acknowledges Rob Fowler,…

Game Theory: Viral

Added: 27 Nov 2023

Turner and Robinson embrace their dark side in Viral to play the bad guys.

One indivisible truth?

Added: 27 Nov 2023

The European Medicines Agency’s vision of a single source of truth for clinical trial information f…

Building scientific communities

Added: 6 Nov 2023

The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in h…

Agents of change

Added: 9 Oct 2023

We have previously focused on the importance of diagnostic collaboration in combating TB. This time…

The root of it

Added: 2 Oct 2023

Seaweed is an intrinsic part of our existence on this planet and it could just be the very thing th…

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…

Innovation in digital imaging is essential for the modern lab

Added: 6 Sep 2023

Technological advances mean switching from microscopes to digital alternatives can be achieved with…

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 …

Accelerating cancer research with automation

Added: 30 Jul 2023

Chemotherapies that rely on replication-associated DNA damage can affect healthy cells as well as c…

New tools for an old enemy

Added: 30 Jul 2023

It’s 30 years since the World Health Organisation identified the resurgence of tuberculosis as a gl…

Stopping the rot

Added: 23 Jul 2023

The global cold chain is functioning but often ineptly, with consequences for food and vaccine supp…

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…

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…

Embrace the new

Added: 26 Jun 2023

Its name harks back to a bygone era, but the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is at the …