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Get with the program

Added: 28 Oct 2024

Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

Stand by for the big freeze

Added: 26 Oct 2024

Crisp white snow, glaciers all around, icicles melting in the summer sun – it’s July in Britain 50 …

Lab innovations 2024: automation and productivity in the laboratory

Added: 22 Oct 2024

With Lab innovations 2024 fast approaching, Russell Lotinga of show exhibitor Festo, explains how a…

Fulfilling Biopharma’s needs using process Raman Spectroscopy

Added: 12 Oct 2024

Quality control is vital to biopharma workflows, explains Sudhir Dahal. Raman spectroscopy can play…

Fundamentally unintelligent

Added: 30 Sep 2024

AI didn’t invent job automation or fake images. Better to worry anyway about social media, urges Pr…

Combatting microplastics with microscopy

Added: 30 Sep 2024

Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations…

Do research AI rules disadvantage non-native English scientists?

Added: 6 Sep 2024

Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …

The hydrodynamics lab pioneering offshore renewable energy innovation

Added: 4 Sep 2024

The University of Manchester’s new hydrodynamics lab simulates the complexities of the ocean and ca…

The right moves

Added: 31 Aug 2024

Finding lab spaces is difficult but there’s more to consider after you secure one. Switching sites …

Game Theory: More or Less: Science & Nature Edition

Added: 19 Aug 2024

More or Less: Science & Nature Edition scores high on accuracy and fun.

Cold cure

Added: 19 Aug 2024

Power-intensive equipment such as fridges and freezers significantly impact energy conservation in …

Unveiling the ripple effect

Added: 12 Aug 2024

Dr Gen Li returns to the theme of how the war in Ukraine has impacted global clinical development a…

Focus on the foreign to life

Added: 12 Aug 2024

Xenobiotics – those chemical substances found within organisms but not naturally produced by them –…

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 …