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Lab Babble: Alphabetti spaghetti
Added: 6 Aug 2024
The acronymitis virus has reached all corners of science. Russ Swan senses an opportunity…

The evolution of CRISPR cell line technology
Added: 6 Aug 2024
CRISPR technology’s initial applications were primarily focused on targeted genome editing, but its…

Shafted by progress
Added: 29 Jul 2024
There was little chance of Archimedes losing his screw; things are very different today, reflects M…

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…

A matter of scale
Added: 22 Jul 2024
Funding support and infrastructure are needed to bring bio-based products and processes to market a…

New lab... but is it operationally ready?
Added: 7 Jul 2024
Lab space may be in short supply but don't neglect any element of the moving in process, urges Tes …

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

Casting light on the matter
Added: 4 Jun 2024
Instrument manufacturer Waters Corporation has teamed up with the University of Surrey to provide s…

Future Labs Live 2024: Digital, automated, connected
Added: 4 Jun 2024
Basel braces for anything up to 3,000 innovators, industry leaders and practitioners attending the …

Lab Babble: Be damned and don’t publish
Added: 29 May 2024
Commercial priorities are killing the usefulness of web platforms and publishing, despairs Russ Swa…

Hurricane hunters
Added: 29 May 2024
Cruising thousands of feet above the Arctic through a raging storm isn’t the most congenial researc…

Six degrees of separation
Added: 20 May 2024
Labs play an essential role in advancing sustainability in the wider world but they need to tackle …

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…

Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Greet with scepticism
Added: 14 May 2024
AI isn’t going anywhere, says Matthew Partridge, so let’s stop worrying and think more about how to…

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

Game Theory: Ecosystem – Coral Reef
Added: 7 May 2024
Like its namesake, Coral Reef is simple to appreciate but it’s challenging to master.

Biomaterial adoption: from lab to commercialisation
Added: 7 May 2024
Enhancing biomaterials’ water resistance through chemical modification increases their potential to…

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…

The evolution of CRISPR cell line technology
Added: 22 Apr 2024
CRISPR technology’s initial applications were primarily focused on targeted genome editing, but its…