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Can cobots help us reach COVID test targets?

October 28, 2020
Could laboratory test automation with collaborative robots (cobots) be the answer to help 'Operation Moonshot' reach its target of half a million UK COVID tests per day asks Mark Gray...

Reflections on the CRISPR journey from conception to Nobel Prize and beyond…

October 14, 2020
Our very own CRISPR specialist, Dermot Martin, muses on this year’s historic decision to award the Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development...

Machine Learning provides insight into cannabis strains

September 30, 2020
Cannabis data lacking, but machine learning could help THC and CBD; Anyone who has used, sold, studied or even read much about marijuana likely recognises these acronyms as active ingredients...

Developing the next-generation genomics toolkit

September 21, 2020
Bob Daber from Genosity and Michael Wong from EPAM unveil the secrets behind the Integrated Genomics Toolkit (IGT), a comprehensive software solution that enables laboratories to leverage next-generation sequencing (NGS)...

Unravelling what makes memories so detailed and enduring

September 14, 2020
In years to come, our personal memories of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be etched in our minds with precision and clarity, distinct from other memories of 2020. The...

Laboratory News Podcast – Rhythmical rats and scientific gin

September 7, 2020
Its only a bloomin' party episode! And what makes a party really tick? Why music and alcohol of course...

Biomimicry informs better sensors: just add noise

September 4, 2020
Adding noise to enhance a weak signal is a sensing phenomenon common in the animal world but unusual in manmade sensors. Now Penn State researchers have added a small amount...

Elastic to kinetic energy conversion through biomimicry

September 4, 2020
Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst can do it, too - they discovered a way of efficiently converting...

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