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Van Leeuwenhoek's rich legacy endures three centuries on
Added: 24 Aug 2023
He may have been a late starter in the field with which his name is indelibly associated but Antony…
Look beyond the Horizon
Added: 3 Aug 2023
While many scientists are keen to see the UK back in the Horizon Europe programme, Professor Brian …
Accelerating cancer research with automation
Added: 30 Jul 2023
Chemotherapies that rely on replication-associated DNA damage can affect healthy cells as well as c…
New tools for an old enemy
Added: 30 Jul 2023
It’s 30 years since the World Health Organisation identified the resurgence of tuberculosis as a gl…
Game Theory: Cytosis – A Cell Biology Game
Added: 23 Jul 2023
Now in its second iteration, Cytosis proves another all-round high scorer with our duo, for its tak…
Stopping the rot
Added: 23 Jul 2023
The global cold chain is functioning but often ineptly, with consequences for food and vaccine supp…
Ditch the manual
Added: 16 Jul 2023
Digitalisation and automation are about people as much as technology, emphasises Divya Vijay Prathe…
Hyper-space
Added: 16 Jul 2023
There’s a temptation in space science to bill every act of participation as a success, whatever the…
Lab Babble: Today’s fact, tomorrow’s retract
Added: 10 Jul 2023
You can withdraw a discredited paper, but the long tail of citations lingers on and on, cautions Ru…
Sponsored Feature: Global leader LTE Scientific celebrates 75 years of excellence
Added: 7 Jul 2023
LTE Scientific, a global leader in the design, manufacture, and supply of laboratory, scientific an…
Sponsored Feature: Culturing Innovation with Don Whitley Scientific
Added: 6 Jul 2023
‘Culturing innovation’ is the message being shared by Don Whitley Scientific (DWS), a company proud…
Now you see it
Added: 3 Jul 2023
As an explanation for the unexplainable, magic frequently has the edge on science, says Matthew Par…
Time to get VOCal
Added: 3 Jul 2023
We rightly pay attention to CO₂ and methane, says Chang Foo, but more consideration is needed of th…
Embrace the new
Added: 26 Jun 2023
Its name harks back to a bygone era, but the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is at the …
Multi-tasked, ultrafast and kinder
Added: 26 Jun 2023
Ongoing technological advances to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) are contributing to…
Game Theory: Doctor Livingston Jr jigsaws
Added: 5 Jun 2023
They’ve seen many science games, but Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner can’t hide their enthusia…
When surface impressions are the ones that count
Added: 29 May 2023
The surface quality of a product’s materials influences its performance. Optical profiling techniqu…
Leading ex-sample
Added: 22 May 2023
Liverpool University spin-out ReNewVax’s goal of creating the first universal pneumococcus vaccine …
Let’s get Ig-gy
Added: 22 May 2023
Try as they might to resist temptation… when spring approaches, scientists have just one thing on t…
Guestbook: Formula for our future
Added: 15 May 2023
Efforts by the energy intensive chemicals industry to promote a greener future will impact greatly …
