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Time for masks not musical chairs, health secretary told

July 9, 2022
News
Incoming health secretary Steve Barclay has been urged to reintroduce the wearing of facemasks and purchase top-up vaccine against Omicron COVID-19 variants.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Haematology, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmacology, Policy
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How food microbiology contract labs can drive sustainable impact

June 19, 2022
Insight
Safe and trusted food is essential for the food industry to prosper — especially in today’s landscape of increased transparency.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Environment, Environmental, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Food and Drink, Food Science, Health & Safety, Microbiology
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In agro: field labs and farmer-led research

June 19, 2022
Insight
The Innovative Farmers not for profit network brings together farmers and growers with researchers to enable field trials (pun intended). A decade's worth of on-farm trial results demonstrate farmer-led research...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Food & Bev, Health & Safety, Interviews
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REF results hammer home the importance of UK university-business collaboration

June 1, 2022
News
The results of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) identify ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ research across the UK. Indeed, 41% of submissions were judged to be world-leading, and 43% as...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Five-letter words for research: ‘trial’ and ‘error’

May 31, 2022
Insight
You now have six attempts to guess the craze that has hooked Dr Matthew Partridge as he envisages a research learning tool that returns experimental results as side-by-side, colour coded...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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How to minimise the risk of cross-contamination in laboratories

May 26, 2022
Feature
Cross-contamination is a major concern for any laboratory and can lead to false and inaccurate results. Andrew Powers discusses how to mitigate the risk of potential time and resource losses...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, In Depth, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Our lifestyles are key contributors to river pollution – social prescribing can help

May 25, 2022
News
A new study demonstrates the significant environmental impact of harmful chemical and biological agents we use in our daily activities and then flush down our drains. Personal care products, detergents,...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Health & Safety, Oceanography, Policy
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Identifying and reducing day-to-day stress in laboratories

May 19, 2022
Insight
A busy laboratory can be a stressful working environment, especially if there is a backlog of samples or the team is working on a tight timescale. Nadine Bellamy-Thomas considers the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Physics, Policy
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Reducing microbiological growth in your lab

May 12, 2022
Feature
Microbes are invisible to the naked eye. Every laboratory user carries a microbiome load of c.100 trillion microbes and sheds 10gms of skin each day. Under optimum conditions, a microbial...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, In Depth, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Lab furniture design for health and hygiene

May 10, 2022
Feature
Unlike cleanrooms, many laboratories aren't ISO 14644 registered when it comes to air particle count. Sue Springett discusses why any organisation that purports to foster a hygienic culture should be...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Materials, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotech, Pathology, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physics, Policy, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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