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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…
Look to your assets
Added: 15 Apr 2024
Waste reduction or recycling is usually the focus for driving greener practice in the lab but what …
Honing in on the chemical lab
Added: 15 Apr 2024
This year’s version of the CHEMUK show is the largest ever but it also has an enhanced focus on the…
Playing it cool
Added: 8 Apr 2024
In the lab, the need for effective temperature control is a given. And as demands have increased, s…
Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Bodge it, Badger
Added: 2 Apr 2024
Given the realities of working life, a bodge job can beat the company’s purchasing protocols, advis…
Scaling the digital mountain
Added: 24 Mar 2024
Hub locations are as much a feature in healthcare as for life sciences in general. Ursula Costa out…
(Almost) one hundred and eighty!
Added: 24 Mar 2024
Time was when three scientific disciplines sufficed, says Russ Swan. They’ve multiplied, to say the…
Identity crisis?
Added: 18 Mar 2024
When the Royal Society of Chemistry began to tackle the barriers to disabled entrants to the profes…
Translating to liquid assets
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Biotech ValiRx’s new spin-out prompted its evolution from a virtual operation to encompass wet labs…
The far horizon
Added: 11 Mar 2024
Innovate UK has gone public this year with the research for its list of the top 50 emerging technol…
A vision beyond gold
Added: 11 Mar 2024
Little more than a year since its win at the Lab Awards, Cytecom has secured an NIHCR contract to t…
Unravelling the secrets of RNA
Added: 4 Mar 2024
Advancing scientific knowledge of plant structures not only improves crop yields but also helps tre…
Farm to gutter: Genomic surveillance to track AMR
Added: 4 Mar 2024
Governments are waking up to the dangers presented by antimicrobial resistance but the focus on cli…
Stat… fact… friction?
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Do the figures speak for themselves? Rarely, warns Russ Swan.
Million dollar beep
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Digital hackers may be the bigger threat but don’t overlook the need for safeguards against more co…
Keep it clean
Added: 5 Feb 2024
Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…