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Broadening the baseline

October 13, 2025
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As the technology underpinning genome studies continues to improve, an over-reliance on Eurocentric datasets holds research back, asserts Neil Ward. It’s time for greater diversity.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Genetics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Doctoring priorities

October 6, 2025
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The medical profession is a key laboratory client. So, it pays to understand the strategic priorities that inform doctors’ testing orders, argues Dirk Heckel.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Forensics, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Putting knowledge before prestige

October 6, 2025
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Our reliance upon the impact factor is destroying public trust in science, argues Damian Pattinson.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Saving lives, protecting livelihoods

September 29, 2025
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Zoonotic disease Nipah virus (NiV) killed more than 100 people in a 1999 Malaysian outbreak. Simon Graham outlines his work to establish an international consortium that aims to develop a...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Drug Discovery, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Front line safeguards

September 15, 2025
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Effective monitoring is essential for sample storage and never more so than in the race to halt a pandemic. Gary Bradshaw recalls how improved alarming contributed to the protection of...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Pathology, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Lab Babble: Turning basic science into TV gold

September 1, 2025
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Move over Mary Berry, writes Russ Swan.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Sensing what’s right

August 25, 2025
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Rigorous cleanroom certification requires accurate, real-time data. Microchip technology provided by sophisticated integrated circuits ensure sensors are up to the task, says Ross Turnbull.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Environment, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Complexity demands clarity

August 25, 2025
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Science mustn’t take refuge in obscurity, insists Matthew Partridge.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Game Theory: Life

August 4, 2025
Insight
Life is like Top Trumps for science
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Zoology
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In the public arena

August 4, 2025
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Research in the laboratory or out in the field is essential, but communicating with public audiences is a vital part of being a scientist too, argues the Royal Institution’s Katherine...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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