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A shared responsibility

March 17, 2025
As World Health Organisation funding comes under threat, Hogan Bassey offers a reminder of how coordinated efforts in the lab for critical health challenges such as malaria bring shared benefits...

Megalodon’s true shape sheds light on aquatic gigantism

March 13, 2025
A new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica has revealed fresh insights into the anatomy of the ancient megalodon, providing vital clues about how certain aquatic vertebrates evolved to gigantic size.

Design for lab-ing

March 10, 2025
Product and marketing manager at leading lab furniture and equipment designer and manufacturer Teknomek Michelle Locke discusses the changes and challenges of catering for the sector.

Banking on precision

March 3, 2025
Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understanding of the factors influencing public health and diseases, explains PacBio’s Neil Ward.

Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer

March 1, 2025
Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help underwrite their work into breast cancer recurrence.

Letters of mark

February 24, 2025
Professional registration provides a clear indication of competency and access to valuable resources, explains Laurence Dawkins-Hall, with a shortened route for apprentice technicians and scientists.

Virtual reality, actual implications

February 24, 2025
Digitalisation is transforming the nature of healthcare by sidestepping previous physical constraints on provision. But, warns Paul Grant, there are implications for laboratory services we must not ignore.

Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness

February 22, 2025
UCL retinal specialists received special permission to use a novel therapy to restore some sight to children suffering from a rare form of genetic blindness.

Time to launch bureaucracy 4.0

February 17, 2025
Laboratories have embraced the digital age. Isn’t it time medical logistics did the same to save resources and lives, asks Jo Eames.

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