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Making a meal of it
Added: 18 Sep 2023
Insect farming’s potential value to the future of food supply has been well documented. As ever, th…
A lighter approach
Added: 18 Sep 2023
The drive to achieve sustainable laboratories affects all areas of operation. After the more obviou…
Informed consent: Maximising compliance and minimising risk
Added: 12 Sep 2023
While the principle of participant consent is better appreciated in clinical research today than in…
Water, the source of (lab) life
Added: 11 Sep 2023
When it comes to laboratory liquid, there’s just nothing that can top the peerless H20, argues Matt…
Innovation in digital imaging is essential for the modern lab
Added: 6 Sep 2023
Technological advances mean switching from microscopes to digital alternatives can be achieved with…
Game Theory: Ocean Pods
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Leicestershire-based Molinarius Games has a water focus. So how does its Ocean Pods board game meas…
Cycling to zero
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Images of workplace pollution and waste usually focus on heavy industry but ignore the sizeable con…
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…
