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Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Drilling down – or boring?

October 30, 2023
If you find a subject dull, time to shoot the messenger, says Matthew Partridge.

Walking the talk

October 30, 2023
It’s easy to sign up to greener practice in principle but how do life sciences firms prove they deliver? Jeffrey Whitford, Vice President of Sustainability & Social Business Innovation at...

New map of UK 20th century land use throws light on biodiversity change

October 30, 2023
The first map has been produced that can detail how nearly all of Britain’s lowland meadows and pasture land was lost to increasingly intensive farming in the last century.

CGI signs three year Royal Institution Christmas Lectures deal

October 29, 2023
The Royal Institution (Ri) has launched a three-year agreement with business consultancy CGI as the title partner for its annual Christmas Lectures and in support of the organisation’s wider charitable...

First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker

October 23, 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imaging technique for early onset disease identification.

Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer

October 22, 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help fuel their growth, re-sensitising the disease for treatment, suggests new research published in Nature.

Nikon photomicrography competition unveils more small world stunners

October 22, 2023
An image of the common by-product of diabetes that causes widespread sight loss affecting up to one in five sufferers has won the coveted first place in the 49th annual...

Turing helps connect swimming sperm with zebra stripes

October 15, 2023
What is the connection between swimming sperm and the spots on a leopard or the stripes on a zebra? A common mathematical basis say two Bristol University engineers.

Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients

October 15, 2023
Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged Neil Ward, Vice President and General Manager EMEA for PacBio talking at the Genomics...

Lab Innovations 2023: sustainable solvent selection

October 9, 2023
While much discussion around sustainability has focused on the energy efficiency of instruments and equipment, factors such as chemical and solvent selection are overlooked. says Paul Vanden Branden, who examines...

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