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Non-consensual citizen science?

July 24, 2022
Russ Swan ponders the non-consensual extraction of biological information from public social images in the emerging discipline of ‘imageomics’.

How to implement data-driven R&D

July 17, 2022
While helping his colleague Peter Rhodes prepare for a talk hosted by Lab News at CHEMUK 2022, Max Petersen delved deeper into why chemical and materials companies seeking to drive...

eDNA and metabarcoding for monitoring biodiversity

July 17, 2022
As the impact of anthropogenic change on environmental biodiversity becomes an increasingly pressing topic of research, Lab News paraphrases a presentation given by Professor Simon Creer which outlines practical methods...

Setting up a philanthropic genomic testing marketplace

July 10, 2022
Mike Hudson tells the story of how one not-for-profit has helped UK Covid testing laboratories and generated £2.5 million for good causes over the past two years. Now, the team...

Portable spectroscopy: Taking the spectrometer to the sample

July 10, 2022
There are times when it just isn’t efficient enough to send samples to the lab for testing. Richard Crocombe outlines advances in portable spectroscopy and which instruments to use for...

Turning drought into opportunity

June 29, 2022
Mineral physics can help provide a solution to water shortage and its applications may not be limited only to our own world, suggests Sabrina Lautin.

Understanding viral morphologies with next-generation cryo-EM

June 26, 2022
With diverse morphologies, our understanding of Archaeal viruses remains scant. Here, Prof Edward H Egelman discusses how his team applied advances in cryo-electron microscopy to uncover the atomic structure and...

AI helps detect autistic speech patterns in different language groups

June 19, 2022
Speech patterns associated with autism can be identified with the help of machine learning in languages as different as English and Cantonese, suggests new research.

How food microbiology contract labs can drive sustainable impact

June 19, 2022
Safe and trusted food is essential for the food industry to prosper — especially in today’s landscape of increased transparency.

How does automation improve lab testing?

June 12, 2022
Laboratory results can be instrumental in telling scientists and health care professionals about people’s diagnoses, whether diseases are spreading in certain parts of the world and more. Researchers have been...

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