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Investing in futures
March 5, 2023
It’s not only students who need to take placements seriously. Lab managers too must adopt a long-term view of their value, suggests George Barsted.

Sustainably feeding the world with genomics-driven agriculture
March 5, 2023
As cell meat manufacture develops in the lab, science is increasingly impacting arable farming in the field. Agrigenomics seeks to transition production to counter climate and population pressures, outlines Neil...

The Pauper Paradox
February 27, 2023
The degree machine pumps out poorly paid young graduates. Someone’s doing well out of it, observes Russ Swan.

From petri dish to dinner plate
February 27, 2023
Lab grown meat is developing into a multibillion pound industry but scaling up has challenges, explains Liz Fletcher.

A coordinated advance
February 20, 2023
Deep virology knowledge, urgency and partnership form the crucible for rapid antibody development to combat respiratory virus infection, explains Paul Kellam.

Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt… chatbots in perspective
February 17, 2023
Doom-mongers relax, cautions Professor Brian J Ford, ChatGPT is not yet about to spell the end of research integrity. Besides, we've been through many iterations of this sort of thing...

Weighing: the environmental impact
February 10, 2023
Labs are used to taking account of the effect of their processes on the environment but on a smaller scale it can affect them adversely too, as in the case...

Help us to open the lab to talent and disability
February 8, 2023
Katherine Deane explains how your input can ensure the Access All Areas project enables science to embrace an often overlooked area of diversity – disability inclusion in the laboratory environment.

Sunak shuffle: strategic sense or rearranging the deckchairs?
February 8, 2023
From a political perspective, prime minister Rishi Sunak’s predicted mini-reshuffle is either far sighted vision or a desperate, cosmetic rearrangement. It all depends largely on which side of the Commons...

Scientific nesting places
February 6, 2023
If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does have its uses…

