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The Future of Lab Informatics

Added: 30 Jan 2025

What will 2025 bring in terms of lab informatics? How will advanced technologies drive new discover…

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…

The write stuff

Added: 20 Jan 2025

Procrastination gets you far, says Matthew Partridge. All the way to deadline time.

Lab Babble: Citizen riff

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Russ Swan does his bit for volunteer science.

Financing smarter laboratories

Added: 13 Jan 2025

Everyone understands the importance of greater automation within the laboratory. Meeting that need,…

Greener diagnostics: The sustainable revolution

Added: 17 Dec 2024

From eco-friendly materials to innovative technologies such as spectroscopy, molecular diagnostics …

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…

Tree Bingo combines entertainment and enjoyment

Added: 25 Nov 2024

What is Tree Bingo?

Well sometimes a game does exactly what it states on the box; Tree Bingo is bi…

Get with the program

Added: 25 Nov 2024

Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

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…

Translating food safety from the laboratory to the factory floor

Added: 17 Nov 2024

Advances in the science of food safety might begin with the laboratory but much of the pressures fo…

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.

Get with the program

Added: 28 Oct 2024

Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

Stand by for the big freeze

Added: 26 Oct 2024

Crisp white snow, glaciers all around, icicles melting in the summer sun – it’s July in Britain 50 …

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…

Fundamentally unintelligent

Added: 30 Sep 2024

AI didn’t invent job automation or fake images. Better to worry anyway about social media, urges Pr…

Do research AI rules disadvantage non-native English scientists?

Added: 6 Sep 2024

Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

The right moves

Added: 31 Aug 2024

Finding lab spaces is difficult but there’s more to consider after you secure one. Switching sites …

Cold cure

Added: 19 Aug 2024

Power-intensive equipment such as fridges and freezers significantly impact energy conservation in …