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Lab Babble: The Modern Prometheus

Added: 28 Nov 2022

Not content with streamlining all scientific research, Russ Swan now offers a blueprint for human e…

Sustainability’s other R-words

Added: 20 Nov 2022

Environmental practice has its own version of the Three Rs, says Colin Shandley, so why stop at ‘Re…

The final frontier

Added: 20 Nov 2022

Sustainability goals in science must include one untilrecently overlooked issue: lab space and the …

Dystopia calling…

Added: 14 Nov 2022

Dr Matthew Partridge has seen the 2050 future and it works, even if we no longer understand why.

The agile response

Added: 14 Nov 2022

Sustainable lab practice allied to uncompromising quality and safety standards are vital for the op…

View from the business end

Added: 7 Nov 2022

Tim Doggett explains the importance of sustainability for modern laboratories in terms of the wider…

Lab 2050: Four pillars of transformation

Added: 7 Nov 2022

To prepare for the laboratory of the future we must ask, decades ahead, how it will look? Pistoia A…

How can AI advance laboratory research?

Added: 21 Oct 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making waves across industries, and laboratory research may be the …

Reproducibility’s new rule of three

Added: 3 Oct 2022

Could multiplexing offer the way around one of science’s great conundrums? Russ Swan contemplates.

Supporting innovation in life sciences

Added: 20 Sep 2022

The life sciences’ response to Covid-19 has spurred intense interest worldwide in British R&D, says…

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Avoiding common pitfalls deploying customised fume cupboards

Added: 23 Aug 2022

Fume cupboards are vital in an industrial setting but they need to be tailored carefully to the ind…

Healthcare must learn from experience to combat global challenges for patients’ sake

Added: 22 Aug 2022

With nearly one in 20 of global drug trials affected by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it’s essential…

Disruptors: how Cloud tech is reshaping the laboratory

Added: 22 Aug 2022

Technological transformation is driving change in the modern lab as Cloud-based systems, automation…

How to get lab equipment ‘field’ ready

Added: 31 Jul 2022

Having gathered evidence from at least two field researchers, Dr Matthew Partridge discusses the pe…

Creating places for people to drive life science

Added: 24 Jul 2022

While technology and collaboration has made it possible for many to consider giving up their commut…

How to implement data-driven R&D

Added: 18 Jul 2022

While helping his colleague Peter Rhodes prepare for a talk hosted by Lab News at CHEMUK 2022, Max …

Five-letter words for research: ‘trial’ and ‘error’

Added: 31 May 2022

You now have six attempts to guess the craze that has hooked Dr Matthew Partridge as he envisages a…

Identifying and reducing day-to-day stress in laboratories

Added: 19 May 2022

A busy laboratory can be a stressful working environment, especially if there is a backlog of sampl…

When more knowledge does not equal more complexity

Added: 9 May 2022

In a world saturated with information, Dr Diane Turner discusses how more in-depth learning about a…

The voice of the empowered patient is on the rise

Added: 22 Apr 2022

Industry experts agree that patient-centricity should be the overriding aim of global life science …