December 14, 2021

As part of our 2021 Royal Institutions Christmas Lecture coverage, we ask Sharon Peacock how discoveries made by the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) team may help change the future...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology

December 2, 2021

Manufacturing of any vaccine is a complex process that requires consistent monitoring to ensure efficiency and safety for the end user and for everyone involved. Here, measurement and instrumentation experts...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology

November 22, 2021

The power to control living cells by treating molecules as switches or transistors has been established in principle. Synthetic biologists believe we could be on the brink of re-engineering life...

Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering

Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Health/Diagnostics, Interviews, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Physics, Proteomics & Genomics

November 12, 2021

Dr Paul Orange outlines the project which led to his involvement in the new Chinese battery protocol regulations. In response to customer demand, he led an initiative that ensured all...

Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering

Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Interviews, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Physics, Policy, Solid State Physics

November 12, 2021

While advances in robotic automation have revolutionised manufacturing over past decades, assembling a wide range of everyday items from vehicles to consumer electronics, we have yet to see a similar...

Interviews, Materials, Materials Science, Policy

October 15, 2021

Laboratories are just one of the many businesses that were forced to adapt operations because of the coronavirus pandemic. While some QA/QC labs fared well, others that rely on collaborative...

Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering

Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Interviews, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics

September 13, 2021

The SARS-CoV-2 virus uses complex glycan sugars to hide from the immune system. Tasked with production of spike protein, Dr Rod Chalk shares how he and his team developed an...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology

August 27, 2021

In an exclusive interview with Dermot Martin, Eva Engvall discusses the invention and evolution of ELISA, the fifty-year old analysis technique that sits at the heart of COVID testing kits.

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Organic Chemistry, Pathology, Virology

July 16, 2021

Following up on the wonderful photo story, 'Botanical biodiversity banked', published on our website last November in celebration of MSB's 20th anniversary, we decided to ask Dr Chris Cockel what...

Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences

Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Interviews, Microbiology

May 7, 2021

Following what may have felt like a slow uptake of voluntary third-party laboratory testing support during the fight against the COVID-29 pandemic, Lorraine Turner explains how UKAS has fast tracked...

Chemistry, Life Sciences

Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy, Virology