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Keep it clean
Added: 5 Feb 2024
Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…
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 …
A global leg-up
Added: 29 Jan 2024
Returning to the theme of sustainable reuse, Colin Shandley offers a reminder that the effect goes …
Where the action is
Added: 29 Jan 2024
As demand for lab space increasingly outstrips supply, alternatives are being sought to science par…
On the front line
Added: 22 Jan 2024
Increasing digitalisation creates a weapon for hackers, criminals and hostile states to employ far …
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…
Community helps overcome challenges of disability in science
Added: 7 Dec 2023
Chantelle Minchin was forced by illness to drop out of her previous university course and decided t…
One indivisible truth?
Added: 27 Nov 2023
The European Medicines Agency’s vision of a single source of truth for clinical trial information f…
Shooting the lab
Added: 20 Nov 2023
If a picture tells a thousand words, a short video can do still more in the social media age. Autho…
Sound of the City
Added: 14 Nov 2023
Government hopes to drive UK growth through the life sciences depend upon commercial as well as pub…
Breaking down a breakup
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The seas around Florida provided the opportunity to analyse the movement of the Earth’s crust durin…
Building scientific communities
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in h…
Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Drilling down – or boring?
Added: 30 Oct 2023
If you find a subject dull, time to shoot the messenger, says Matthew Partridge.
Quantum of challenge
Added: 16 Oct 2023
Its market value will soon be measured in billions, yet quantum computing has yet to reach a market…
Lab Innovations 2023: sustainable solvent selection
Added: 9 Oct 2023
While much discussion around sustainability has focused on the energy efficiency of instruments and…
Getting drastic on plastic
Added: 25 Sep 2023
Our third feature on the Lab innovations My Green Lab/Laboratory News-curated sessions details Labc…
A lighter approach
Added: 18 Sep 2023
The drive to achieve sustainable laboratories affects all areas of operation. After the more obviou…
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…
Water, the source of (lab) life
Added: 11 Sep 2023
When it comes to laboratory liquid, there’s just nothing that can top the peerless H20, argues Matt…
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…
