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#DryLabsRealScience: Teaching practicals without labs
Added: 16 Nov 2020
Wondering how to teach wet science, forensics and laboratory best practice remotely? Or have you al…
Frontiers survey: Early impact of COVID-19 on scientists
Added: 5 Nov 2020
With scientists under such enormous political and social pressure to deliver answers to the current…
Clarifying VAT on PPE for charities during COVID pandemic
Added: 3 Nov 2020
Led by GAMBICA, the trade association for the instrumentation, control, automation and laboratory i…
Nonscience Returns: You can get away with anything on TV
Added: 2 Nov 2020
Biologist and broadcaster Professor Brian J Ford’s satire on science has just been updated as Nonsc…
Can cobots help us reach COVID test targets?
Added: 28 Oct 2020
Could laboratory test automation with collaborative robots (cobots) be the answer to help 'Operatio…
Lessons learnt from a zero-carbon laboratory
Added: 23 Oct 2020
Mathew Butler reviews the operation of the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Sustainable Chemis…
Making it happen: young people aren’t just the leaders of tomorrow
Added: 23 Oct 2020
Freelance nextgen reporter, Amy Grace, interviews Mhairi McCann; one of the Women in Engineering So…
lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Stuck in the middle
Added: 23 Oct 2020
In sympathy with all those researchers out there trying to get the tough papers writer, Dr Matthew …
Career chances for technicians shouldn’t be a matter of luck
Added: 20 Oct 2020
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Robots support growth in Medical, Pharmaceutical and Lifesciences sectors
Added: 15 Oct 2020
Mechatronics solutions expert, Simon Jenkins, highlights just one of the areas where robots are now…
Reflections on the CRISPR journey from conception to Nobel Prize and beyond...
Added: 14 Oct 2020
Our very own CRISPR specialist, Dermot Martin, muses on this year’s historic decision to award the …
2D or not 2D? That is the question...
Added: 5 Oct 2020
As the Government’s test and trace system once again comes under fire, Steve Knight laments a misse…
The #coronavaccine prisoner exchange scenario
Added: 29 Sep 2020
Against a backdrop of Russian cyber-conspiracies, Russ Swan takes a critical look at the UK vaccine…
Fast-tracking nanovaccines to fight coronavirus
Added: 10 Sep 2020
Today, there are more than 150 COVID-19 vaccines in the race to mitigate the virus.1-3 Some of thes…
Lockdown blues: insights from an inheritor
Added: 10 Sep 2020
Reviewing lockdown life and attempts at emergence into a limited ‘new normal’ with no previous expe…
Innovation gives good reason for optimism
Added: 10 Sep 2020
With most of us beginning to turn our thoughts back to running our businesses against the backdrop …
A researchers guide to lockdown
Added: 9 Sep 2020
We may all be stuck at home but there is still science to be done! Dr Matthew Partridge explores th…
Jurassic Park style GM experiment flies under the radar
Added: 1 Sep 2020
An Oxfordshire based company is at the centre of planned controversial use of GM modified mosquitoe…
How to use serum viscosity to understand COVID-19 patient risk
Added: 1 Sep 2020
2020 has been a strange year all round. An unknown virus, probably in a bat colony in central China…
Bringing innate immunity centre stage in COVID-19 combat
Added: 17 Aug 2020
A recent Canadian paper [1] has acknowledged that the innate immune system could have a direct effe…
